Larry Crabb Quotes

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• It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate
• We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make more than a token stab…
• God is always working to make His children aware of a dream that remains alive beneath the rubble of every shattered dream, a new dream…
• We were designed to love and when we do, something good develops inside. We feel clean, rich, whole. Even better, we become less concerned with…
• In order to meaningfully repent of the ways in which we violate love, we must recognize them. We won’t recognize self-protective patterns of relating as…
• Shattered dreams are never random. They are always a piece in a larger puzzle, a chapter in a larger story. The Holy Spirit uses the…
• The more clearly we recognize how deep our commitment to self-protection operates in our relational style and the more courageously we face the ugliness of…
• I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically... I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of each…
• We have made a terrible mistake! For most of this century we have wrongly defined soul wounds as psychological disorders and delegated their treatment to…
• The root of all our personal and emotional difficulties is a lack of togetherness... I therefore believe that the surest route to overcoming problems and…
• The goal of our sanctification is that we place Christ on display in the way we love others.
• There’s never a moment in all our lives, from the day we trusted Christ till the day we see Him, when God is not longing…
• We can't always make life work. But we can always draw near to God. There is a different way to approach our problems. There is…
• A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into…
• We cannot count on God to arrange what happens in our lives in ways that will make us feel good.We can, however, count on God…
• I assume the Spirit is always whispering, "Abba", to God's children, assuring them that they are safe in His care. And he is continually calling…
• I find it much easier to counsel than to be counseled, to reach out to a friend in my small group who is feeling insercure…
• I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings.
• The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.
• Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that's life changing because it reflects a deep turning from a commitment to…

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