Quotes from Larry Crabb

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

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

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.

Other forms of relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer.

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.

The central truth that serves as the platform for Christian marriage — and for all Christian relationships — is that in Christ we are at every moment eternally loved and genuinely significant.

In order to compete with sin's appeal, holy desire, the longing to live a Christlike life that displays the relational beauty of Christ to others, must be rooted in faith. And that faith exists only when it is lodged in the certainty that soon it will give way to an incomparable experience of joy that will forever destroy the appeal of sin.

The Christian always has reason to celebrate. When we fail, celebrate His grace. When we are blessed, celebrate His mercy. When others reject us, celebrate His love.

And life (or God) seems to reply, "Get ready! The other shoe is going to drop. When? I want to surprise you.

It is regrettable that many Christian psychologists talk more about such things as unconscious motivation and emotional damage than they do about sin and responsibility.

When you can't figure Me out, you will give up the illusion of predictability and control and discover the joy and freedom of hope.

If I understand accountability, but not acceptability, I will live under pressure to behave well in order to be accepted. If I understand acceptability, but not accountability, I may become casually indifferent to sinful living. When I understand first my acceptability and then my accountability, I will be constrained to please the One who died for me, fearful that I might grieve Him, not wanting to, because I love Him.