The Marriage Builder Quotes

“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.”
― Larry Crabb, The Marriage Builder

“Whenever the goal of our behavior is essentially to change the other person — whether the change is good or bad — we are wrong. Unless there is the purpose of communicating love based on an awareness of our spouses’ needs, we qualify as manipulators, not ministers. The key to achieving Soul Oneness is to maintain the fundamental goal of ministry to our partner’s deepest needs and to keep that goal inviolate.”
― Larry Crabb, The Marriage Builder: Creating True Oneness to Transform Your Marriage

“Sin has corrupted not only what we do, but also how we think, what goals we set, and how we feel about ourselves and others. Merely changing what we do will not change who we are. The cure for the selfishness and fear that control so much of what we do cannot be reduced to shallow solutions; we need to learn how our minds deceive us.”
― Larry Crabb, The Marriage Builder: Creating True Oneness to Transform Your Marriage

“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.”
― Larry Crabb, The Marriage Builder: Creating True Oneness to Transform Your Marriage