Top 30 Chris Fabry Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Lord, we need a generation of believers who are not ashamed of the gospel. We need an army of believers who hate to be lukewarm and will stand on Your Word above all else. Raise ’em up, Lord. Raise them up.”

— Chris Fabry

2. “Prayer changes the person who prays.”

— Chris Fabry

3. “Prayer was talking and listening and being excited to spend time with someone who loves you.”

— Chris Fabry

4. “I try not to be religious. That sounds stuck-up. Like you just follow rules. I read somebody once who said religion is man’s way to God. We make a list to follow that makes us good people in our own eyes, but we don’t take into account what God wants.”

— Chris Fabry

5. “The goal of prayer is not to change God’s mind about what you want. The goal of prayer is to change your own heart, to want what He wants, to the glory of God.”

— Chris Fabry

6. “Water that’s not moving becomes stagnant. And if there’s not someone pouring into you, the pitcher gets dusty. A person is most satisfied and most useful when she is both giving and receiving. In marriage. In life. In friendship. With God too.”

— Chris Fabry

7. “Without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and rewards those who seek Him.”

— Chris Fabry

8. “One choice changes the construction of a life. You’ll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.”

— Chris Fabry

9. “It’s because I want you to remember that character counts. You can be the best there ever was at something, but if you have no character, what do you have? On the other hand, if you have very little as far as accomplishments but you have character, well, then you’re all right in my book.”

— Chris Fabry

10. “God does hear what we pray. You don’t need a megaphone or a million people to get His attention. But the point of prayer is not to get what we want. Prayer changes the person who prays.”

— Chris Fabry

11. “Clara had said to ask God for the truth. “Discover the truth about God, who He is, how He works, how much He loves. And then you’ll uncover the truth about yourself, your sin, the ways you displease God. The truth about your life is always better to know, even if it hurts.”

— Chris Fabry

12. “A lot of people want to do great things for God. A lot of people want to change the world. I just shake my head when I hear that. God is the only one who can change the world because He’s the only one who can change hearts and minds.”

— Chris Fabry

13. “Then I started really studying what the Scriptures say, and God showed me that it wasn’t my job to do the heavy lifting. No. That was something that only He could do. It was my job to seek Him, to trust Him, and to stand on His Word.”

— Chris Fabry

14. “Prayer, at its most basic level, was surrender. Like Jesus in the garden, saying, “Not My will, but Yours, be done.” The ironic thing was, when a person surrendered their will, they got God’s, and then they received what they were really looking for all along. This was what she believed.”

— Chris Fabry

15. “God used it all. He used the hard times to draw her closer. He used the struggle to bring them together.”

— Chris Fabry

16. “Prayer, at its most basic level, was surrender. Like Jesus in the garden, saying, “Not My will, but Yours, be done.”

— Chris Fabry

17. “Wrap your heart around that the next time you go through a struggle,” Clara said. “The goal of prayer is not to change God’s mind about what you want. The goal of prayer is to change your own heart, to want what He wants, to the glory of God.”

— Chris Fabry

18. “It is a grace to be able to hold on to someone who runs at life when you can only imagine walking.”

— Chris Fabry

19. “I took her hands in both of mine. “Darlin’, what happened in those woods does not define the rest of your life. People might look at you and say, ‘There’s that woman that was taken to the cabin in Kentucky.’ But God doesn’t look at you that way. He says, ‘There’s my daughter. There’s my spotless bride that my Son died for.’ What happened out there does not have to follow you.”

— Chris Fabry

20. “Elizabeth, it comes down to this: Jesus shed His blood on the cross. He died for you, even when you did not deserve it. And He rose from the grave and offers forgiveness and salvation for anyone who turns to Him. But the Bible also says that we can’t ask Him to forgive us while refusing to forgive others.”

— Chris Fabry

21. “The cakes and pies and casseroles beckoned like gastronomic sirens, and there was no one to lash me to the mast.”

— Chris Fabry

22. “To many, God is not someone you know but something you try to get off your back.”

— Chris Fabry

23. “A black pit bull barreled against the fence, jaws dripping with saliva, viciously barking like Old Yeller after the hydrophobia kicked in.”

— Chris Fabry

24. “Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in the heavens and on earth belongs to You. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all. Riches and honor come from You, and You are the ruler of everything. Power and might are in Your hand, and it is in Your hand to make great and to give strength to all. Now therefore, our God, we give You thanks and praise Your glorious name.”

— Chris Fabry

25. “Most people made it more complicated than it really was, she thought. They looked for a formula or a mathematical equation. And believed that if you didn’t do every step right, you didn’t get what you were praying for. She knew nothing could be further from the truth because prayer was about relationship. Prayer was talking and listening and being excited to spend time with someone who loves you. She.”

— Chris Fabry

26. “When you give voice to your fear, when you expose it, as vulnerable as that makes you, you give others the same permission. You give them courage to believe there’s more to life than cowering. You give hope. And my guess is, when you tackle your inner fears, you will eventually tackle what’s hold you back from who God intended you to be. Your fears lead you to who you really are.”

— Chris Fabry

27. “I don’t know why people have to die, Son. I don’t think death was what God wanted. But it sure was part of somebody’s plan. I believe God is big enough and powerful enough to use it. There’s more going on here than we can see.”

— Chris Fabry

28. “Wrap your heart around that the next time you go through a struggle,” Clara said. “The goal of prayer is not to change God’s mind.”

— Chris Fabry

29. “But when people age, they’re not looking for a cure as much as they are for encouragement to continue. Our work here is not about curing. It’s about the dignity of each person wheeled from breakfast back to their room.”

— Chris Fabry

30. “And then a wave of peace washed over her and told her it wasn’t where she lived that mattered, but that she was walking with Him.”

— Chris Fabry

31. “Ruthie was the first to tell me that God hadn’t abandoned me but was drawing me deeper, calling me out of the shallows, past the abyss, and into the current of his love and mercy. Yeah, right, I thought. God hadn’t asked me if I wanted to go deeper, and thank you very much, I liked the shallows. It’s easier to play when there’s no current. In the middle you lose your footing; you lose control. You lose.”

— Chris Fabry

32. “My constant companions were fears, not God. I convinced myself he was simply on vacation, out carrying someone else on that beach with all the footprints. My heart had shriveled, and my soul was as wrinkled.”

— Chris Fabry

33. “You had to see what you had instead of what you didn’t have. Start from where you are, not from where you want to be.”

— Chris Fabry

34. “It was Pidge’s observation that toleration rather than love was what kept her parents together. They were yoked like horses to a plow and they moved through life pulling something neither could see that kept them a safe distances from each other. There was something both admirable and sad in their marital work ethic, and Pidge promised herself she wouldn’t settle like they had. It was a promise she broke.”

— Chris Fabry