A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
Dallas WillardWe don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
Dallas WillardEveryone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
Dallas WillardThere is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
Dallas WillardGod is the treasure, and where the treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may test our love to God. What are our thoughts most upon? Can we say we are ravished with delight when we think on God? Have our thoughts got wings? Are they fled aloft? Do we contemplate Christ and glory? A sinner crowds God out of his thoughts. He never thinks of God, unless with horror, as the prisoner thinks of the judge.
Dallas Willard