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Top 30 Larry Crabb Quotes (2025 Update)

Larry Crabb Quote: “The goal of our sanctification is that we place Christ on display in the way we love others.”

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

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Larry Crabb Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.”

3. “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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Larry Crabb Quote: “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.”

4. “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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Larry Crabb Quote: “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.”

5. “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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Larry Crabb Quote: “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.”

6. “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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Larry Crabb Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “Certainly we struggle as victims of other people’s unkindness. We have been sinned against. But we cannot excuse our sinful responses to others on the grounds of their mistreatment of us. We are responsible for what we do. We are both strugglers and sinners, victims and agents, people who hurt and people who harm.”

8. “Certainly we struggle as victims of other people’s unkindness. We have been sinned against. But we cannot excuse our sinful responses to others on the grounds of their mistreatment of us. We are responsible for what we do. We are both strugglers and sinners, victims and agents, people who hurt and people who harm.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “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.”

9. “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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Larry Crabb Quote: “The real power in helping somebody to be transformed is not to do something to them but to join with them.”

10. “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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Larry Crabb Quote: “The degree to which we openly express our feelings should be governed, not by fear of reprisal, but by our commitment to loving others.”

11. “The degree to which we openly express our feelings should be governed, not by fear of reprisal, but by our commitment to loving others.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate.”

12. “It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “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.”

13. “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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Larry Crabb Quote: “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.”

14. “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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Larry Crabb Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “We’ll never abandon ourselves to the Spirit as long as we think we can change without Him.”

16. “We’ll never abandon ourselves to the Spirit as long as we think we can change without Him.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings.”

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

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Larry Crabb Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “In order to meaningfully repent of the ways in which we violate love, we must recognize them. We won’t recognize self-protective patterns of relating as sinful violations of love until we face the disappointment in our soul we’re determined never to experience again.”

19. “In order to meaningfully repent of the ways in which we violate love, we must recognize them. We won’t recognize self-protective patterns of relating as sinful violations of love until we face the disappointment in our soul we’re determined never to experience again.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “That day has come. God is now dealing with us in a new way. Our badness is no longer the obstacle to blessing. Nor is our goodness the condition for blessing.”

20. “That day has come. God is now dealing with us in a new way. Our badness is no longer the obstacle to blessing. Nor is our goodness the condition for blessing.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “Spiritual formation is relational formation. It is easier, and therefore more talked about, to practice spiritual disciplines in an effort to feel God’s presence than to practice them in order to draw on the Spirit’s power to love well. Spiritually forming people may or may not regularly experience God with them. But spiritually forming people will grow to increasingly reveal God’s nature by how they relate.”

21. “Spiritual formation is relational formation. It is easier, and therefore more talked about, to practice spiritual disciplines in an effort to feel God’s presence than to practice them in order to draw on the Spirit’s power to love well. Spiritually forming people may or may not regularly experience God with them. But spiritually forming people will grow to increasingly reveal God’s nature by how they relate.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “The highest dream we could ever dream, the wish that if granted would make us happier than any other blessing, is to know God, to actually experience Him. The problem is that we don’t believe this idea is true. We assent to it in our heads. But we don’t feel it in our hearts.”

22. “The highest dream we could ever dream, the wish that if granted would make us happier than any other blessing, is to know God, to actually experience Him. The problem is that we don’t believe this idea is true. We assent to it in our heads. But we don’t feel it in our hearts.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “The pain of aloneness and pointlessness is piercing. It demands relief. That single fact – that the pain of living apart from God is unbearable – exposes our sinfulness as horribly grotesque and foolish. We insist on finding relief without coming to God on His terms.”

23. “The pain of aloneness and pointlessness is piercing. It demands relief. That single fact – that the pain of living apart from God is unbearable – exposes our sinfulness as horribly grotesque and foolish. We insist on finding relief without coming to God on His terms.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “Other forms of relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer.”

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

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Larry Crabb Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “Face the hard questions that life requires you to ask. Gather with other travelers on the narrow road, pilgrims who acknowledge their confusion and feel their fears. Then, together, live those questions in My Presence.”

27. “Face the hard questions that life requires you to ask. Gather with other travelers on the narrow road, pilgrims who acknowledge their confusion and feel their fears. Then, together, live those questions in My Presence.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “There’s no higher dream than experiencing God as He moves through every circumstance of life to an eternal encounter with Himself where transformed people will enjoy perfectly loving community around Jesus Christ, the source of Perfect Love.”

28. “There’s no higher dream than experiencing God as He moves through every circumstance of life to an eternal encounter with Himself where transformed people will enjoy perfectly loving community around Jesus Christ, the source of Perfect Love.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “I once heard worship defined as celebrating the availability of God.”

29. “I once heard worship defined as celebrating the availability of God.”

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Larry Crabb Quote: “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.”

30. “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.”

— Larry Crabb

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