"We must come to the Bible with the……" — Larry Crabb
"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 in that direction. It's extremely hard work. It makes Bible study alternately convicting and reassuring, painful and soothing, puzzling and calming, and sometimes dull - but not for long if our purpose is to see ourselves better."
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22 Quotes by Larry Crabb
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It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to…
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God is always working to make His children aware of a dream that remains alive beneath the rubble of every…
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We were designed to love and when we do, something good develops inside. We feel clean, rich, whole. Even better,…
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In order to meaningfully repent of the ways in which we violate love, we must recognize them. We won’t recognize…
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Shattered dreams are never random. They are always a piece in a larger puzzle, a chapter in a larger story.…
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The more clearly we recognize how deep our commitment to self-protection operates in our relational style and the more courageously…
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I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically... I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways…
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We have made a terrible mistake! For most of this century we have wrongly defined soul wounds as psychological disorders…
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The root of all our personal and emotional difficulties is a lack of togetherness... I therefore believe that the surest…
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The goal of our sanctification is that we place Christ on display in the way we love others.
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There’s never a moment in all our lives, from the day we trusted Christ till the day we see Him,…
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We can't always make life work. But we can always draw near to God. There is a different way to…
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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence…
— Unknown Author
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The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening…
— Agnes Repplier
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We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by…
— Friedrich Engels
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A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with…
— Marcel Proust
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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
— Benjamin Rush
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The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make…
— Joseph Addison
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Students generally have very little idea of the world they are entering into, and their teachers - like parents -…
— Marian Bantjes
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