Quotes by Larry Crabb

Larry Crabb

A marriage bound together by commitments to exploit the other for filling one’s own needs (and I fear that most marriages are built on such a basis) can legitimately be described as a “tic on a dog” relationship. Just as a hungry tic clamps on to a nourishing host in anticipation of a meal, so each partner unites with the other in the expectation of finding what his or her personal nature demands. The rather frustrating dilemma, of course, is that in such a marriage there are two tics and no dog!

Commitment

Dog

Two

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 their souls.

Echoes

Giving

Leadership

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 self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the illusion of comfort.

Commitment

Life Changing

Self

Following Christ is a wild adventure full or risk, frustration, excitement, and setbacks. It is not an evening stroll in a planned community along a well-manicured path.

Adventure

Following Christ

Frustration

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 that when realized will release a new song, sung with tears, till God wipes them away and we sing with nothing but joy in our hearts.

Children

Dream

Song

Godly people… nobly endure hard things. They know that their existence is meaningful and that they are destined for unlimited pleasure at the deepest level in heaven. Because they keenly feel that nothing now quite meets the standards of their longing souls, the quiet but deeply throbbing ache within them drives them not to compalint, but to anticipation and further yieldedness.

Godly

Meaningful

People

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 them to become what God saved them to be, solid people, indestructibly alive, hurting perhaps, but consumed with pleasing the Father.

Children

Father

Hurt

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 than to reveal my own inseurity. The truth is we don’t much like being dependent. We don’t enjoy admitting how desperately we long for someone’s kindness and involvement. It’s so humbling.

Feelings

Kindness

Long

I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings.

Blessing

Jesus

Thinking

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 style are still with me.

Elements

Prayer

Style

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Adventure

Ambassadors

Believe

Blessing

Centering

Character

Children

Christ

Christian

Clean

Commitment

Community

Dad

Degrees

Different

Disappointment

Dog

Dream

Echoes

Elements

Emotional

Enough

Fashion

Father

Feelings

Feels

Finding Happiness

Following Christ

Frustration

Giving

Goal

Godly

Grateful

Hard Work

Healing

Heart

Helping

Hurt

Husband

Jesus

Kindness

Leadership

Life Changing

Long

Maturity

Meaningful

Mistake

Needs

Opportunity

Order

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Quotes by Larry Crabb

Larry Crabb

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 their souls.

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 self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the illusion of comfort.

Following Christ is a wild adventure full or risk, frustration, excitement, and setbacks. It is not an evening stroll in a planned community along a well-manicured path.

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 that when realized will release a new song, sung with tears, till God wipes them away and we sing with nothing but joy in our hearts.

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 them to become what God saved them to be, solid people, indestructibly alive, hurting perhaps, but consumed with pleasing the Father.

I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings.

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 style are still with me.

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