Larry Crabb Quotes

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• 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 becoming the people we were meant to be is reconnecting with God and with our community.

  Larry Crabb

  Believe, Emotional, Roots

  Larry Crabb (2005). “Connecting: Healing Ourselves and Our Relationships”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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 to patiently remove all the obstacles to our enjoyment of Him. He is committed to our joy, and we can depend on Him to give us enough of a taste of that joy and enough hope that the best is still ahead to keep us going in spite of how much pain continues to plague our hearts.

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  Pain, Heart, Giving

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• 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 trained specialists. Damaged psyches aren't the problem. The problem is disconnected souls. What we need is connection. What we need is a healing community.

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  Mistake, Healing, Psych

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• 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 pain of shattered dreams to help us discover our desire for God, to help us begin dreaming the highest dream. They are ordained opportunities for the Spirit to awaken, then to satisfy our highest dream.

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  Dream, Pain, Opportunity

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• 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.

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  Adventure, Frustration, Following Christ

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• The real power in helping somebody to be transformed is not to do something to them but to join with them.

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  Real, Helping, Transformed

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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, when God is not longing to bless us. At every moment, in every circumstance, God is doing us good. He never stops. It gives Him too much pleasure. God is not waiting to bless us after our troubles end. He is blessing us right now, in and through those troubles. At this exact moment, He is giving us what He thinks is good.

  Larry Crabb

  Thinking, Blessing, Giving

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• 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 how we feel and more concerned with the lives of others.

  Larry Crabb

  Rich, Clean, Feels

  Larry Crabb (2014). “Inside Out”, p.95, Tyndale House

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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 we face the ugliness of protecting ourselves rather than loving others, the more we'll shift our direction.

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  Commitment, Self, Style

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• 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.

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  Dream, Song, Children

  Larry Crabb (2012). “Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Path to Joy”, p.82, WaterBrook

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• The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough
  about good things.

  Larry Crabb

  Passionate, Problem, Enough

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• The goal of our sanctification is that we place Christ on display in the way we love others.

  Larry Crabb

  Goal, Way, Christ

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• When spiritual friends share their stories, the others listen without working. They rest. There’s nothing to fix, nothing to improve. A spiritual community feels undisturbed quiet as they listen, certainly burdened . . . but still resting in the knowledge that the life within, the passion for holiness, is indestructible. It needs only to be nourished and released.

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  Spiritual, Passion, Community

  Larry Crabb (2007). “Becoming a True Spiritual Community: A Profound Vision of What the Church Can Be”, p.94, Thomas Nelson

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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 approach our problems. There is a NEW WAY to live.

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  Different, Way To Live, Problem

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• When hints of sadness creep into our soul, we must not flee into happy or distracting thoughts. Pondering the sadness until it becomes overwhelming can lead us to deep change in the direction of our being from self-preservation to grateful worship.

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  Grateful, Sadness, Self

  Larry Crabb, Lawrence James Crabb (1991). “Inside Out”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• The marriage relationship is one of God's creations for building up people. It gives husbands and wives the chance to minister to an immortal human being in a uniquely intimate fashion. To enjoy the meaningfulness of marriage, then, requires a once-made but ongoing commitment of mutual ministry to our mates and the more we seize them, the more meaning our marriage will have.

  Larry Crabb

  Fashion, Husband, Commitment

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• 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.

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  Leadership, Echoes, Giving

  Larry Crabb (2005). “Connecting: Healing Ourselves and Our Relationships”, p.112, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

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  Kindness, Long, Feelings

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• Many of us place top priority not on becoming Christ like in the middle of our problems but on finding happiness.... I must firmly and consciously by an act of my will reject the goal of becoming happy and adopt the goal of becoming more like the Lord.

  Larry Crabb

  Goal, Priorities, Finding Happiness

  Lawrence J. Crabb, Larry Crabb (1977). “Effective Biblical Counseling”, p.20, Zondervan

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• The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.

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  Christian, Understanding, Problem

  Larry Crabb (2012). “Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Path to Joy”, p.31, WaterBrook

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• 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!

  Larry Crabb

  Dog, Commitment, Two

  Larry Crabb (2009). “The Marriage Builder: A Blueprint for Couples and Counselors”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Meaningful, Godly, People

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• If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.

  Larry Crabb

  Pain, Real, Struggle

  Larry Crabb, Lawrence James Crabb (1991). “Inside Out”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• 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.

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  Life Changing, Commitment, Self

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• 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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  Hard Work, Self, Long

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