Chris Fabry Quotes

You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it. ~ Chris Fabry

God used it all. He used the hard times to draw her closer. He used the struggle to bring them together. ~ Chris Fabry

Music has a way of filling in the missing places. It is a gift from God above, who didn't have to provide it, but He did anyway and I half think He decided life just wouldn't be as good without it. ~ Chris Fabry

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

Life is about making good choices, Matt. One after the other. They pile up day after day. It's only when you look back that you can see what the choices led to. What you're able to stand on. ~ Chris Fabry

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

I pulled out my phone as I hurried along and texted Abby, U OK? I had to stop while I texted because I am not a teenager. ~ Chris Fabry

Clara believed with all her heart that God worked all things together for good to those who loved Him and were called according to His purpose. But she did not believe that everything that happened was good. The world was fallen and there was sin in every heart. But God's grace was bigger. The other truth she believed, from a life of experiencing it, was that for real change to happen deep in the soul, God tended to make people miserable rather than happy. He brought them to the end of themselves and showed them how powerless they were in order to show them how powerful He was. ~ Chris Fabry

Ron pointed Helen's gun at me. What kind of name is Ron for such a menacing figure? ~ Chris Fabry

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

To many, God is not someone you know but something you try to get off your back. ~ Chris Fabry

Sometimes the biggest enemy you have is down deep in your own soul. ~ Chris Fabry

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

Someone said, "Hey, Wanda," and I deduced that this was Wanda. This is why I am such a good reporter. ~ Chris Fabry

Because I don't think God trusts just anybody with so much heartache. The world has not yet seen what God can do with a man who gives both halves of a broken heart to him. And I don't doubt that a man like that can change the world ... or at least a little part of it. ~ Chris Fabry

Gerald's arm rose and fell the same way to any song he led, no matter the time signature. He had a nasal twang when he spoke and sang, like a younger Grandpa Jones, but his pitch wasn't bad and he seemed to enjoy song-leading. His job was to get everybody started at the same place and everybody stopped when the song was over, but whatever happened in the middle was up to God and the congregation. ~ Chris Fabry

Somtimes when you know the right thing to do, you simply have to do it, even though it breaks your heart. ~ Chris Fabry

Prayer changes the person who prays. ~ Chris Fabry

[ ... ] the struggle of our lives was not a sign that there was still life. If you stopped struggling, that's when you needed to be worried. The fight meant that God was helping you keep going one more day even if you didn't thik you coould make it. ~ Chris Fabry

The cakes and pies and casseroles beckoned like gastronomic sirens, and there was no one to lash me to the mast. ~ Chris Fabry

Prayer was talking and listening and being excited to spend time with someone who loves you. ~ Chris Fabry

think you'll find that when you let Him, God is a good defense attorney. ~ Chris Fabry

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

The trouble with my wife began when she needed Jesus and I needed a cat. ~ Chris Fabry

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

It is a grace to be able to hold on to someone who runs at life when you can only imagine walking. ~ Chris Fabry

There's a preacher on the radio that says the Beatles are trying to hypnotize us and turn us all into Communists. I was listening to 'Hey, Jude' the other day and I had the urge to move to Cuba, so there might be something to it. ~ Chris Fabry

Humans struggle with the underside of the tapestry, unable to see the beauty in their situation, for they cannot know how the trouble of life fits with The Plan. ~ Chris Fabry

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

It's a wonderful thing to have a companion like that who just wants to sit by you while you work. ~ Chris Fabry

Let me tell you something. Is it wrong for the person who deserves it to get credit? God made everything. He fashioned the little baby in its mother's womb and set the stars in place. He put a plan in motion to redeem us, to showcase His love and goodness and mercy on the cross so that all glory would go to the One to whom it belongs. Glory that goes to anybody or anything else is a sham. And you put an e on that and it becomes a shame. That's what the world has come to by giving glory to people who can catch a ball or twist on a stage. ~ Chris Fabry

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

How is this any different than the big boat argument of people when it came to African-Americans after the Civil War, decided, 'Put them on a boat and send them back where they came from?' You know, he says it in polite language, but that's what Romney's been saying, 'Get home where you came from, start all over again.' ~ Chris Matthews

You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them. ~ Chris Patten

Life is always easier when lived for others, and living for others is the best way I know to live for yourself. ~ Chris Matakas

Let us learn things in the time they will take to learn ~ Chris Murray

And YOU are supposed to be serving as guard. Seven vampires live across the hallway. What are you going to do if a couple of them have psychotic breaks and try to escape while you two are having a quickie?"
(Bastien)"Chase them down bare-ass naked and give the human guards and eyeful."
"I don't know about you," one of the new vamps said in his room, "but I'm pretty sure even a total mind-fuck madness wouldn't make me risk that guy chasing me down and tackling me while he's naked and has a hard-on."
Bastien and Seth both laughed.
"What?" Chris asked unable to hear the vamps. ~ Dianne Duvall

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner. ~ Chris Hardwick

Here's the real secret: you can fulfill the commands of the Bible better by falling in love with God than by trying to obey him. It's not that your obedience isn't significant or relevant; it's simply not the center of the wheel. No, the hub of your life is your relationship with God. Your behavior and obedience radiate like spokes from the center of your life and allow you to roll forward. When you try to make your eternal behavior the hub on which you turn, you get stuck. Forward motion must be fueled by love. ~ Chris Hodges

I had managers approaching me in high school asking me if I wanted to act professionally, but to me, having to miss school to do that meant missing time with my friends, which was completely unacceptable. ~ Chris Lowell

I am about to break into a dimension of the impossible. To enter this realm., I must set my mind (hypnotize myself) free from the earthly fetters that bind it. If the events to witness are unbelievable, it is only because my imagination is chained. So I now sit back, relax, and believe...so that I may cross the brink of time and space...into that land we sometimes visit in our dreams -- my horrific forsaken dreams. ~ Chris Mentillo

Stepping lithe and incredulous from the study; of Karras, emerging bewildered from the kitchen while the nightmarish poundings and croakings continued. Merrin went calmly up the staircase, a slender hand like alabaster sliding upward on the banister. Karras came up beside Chris, and together they watched from below as Merrin entered Regan's bedroom and closed the door behind him. For a time there was silence. Then abruptly the demon laughed hideously and Merrin swiftly exited the room, closed the door, then moved quickly down the hall while behind him the bedroom door opened again and Sharon poked her head out, staring after him with an odd expression on her face. Merrin descended the staircase rapidly and put out his hand to the waiting Karras. ~ William Peter Blatty

One day before he left, Jon called me into his office and he had a pair of shoes and he said, "What do you think of these shoes?" And I said, "Oh, they're good shoes." He said, "What size are you?" I said, "I'm a size eleven." He said, "I'm a size eight." And he said, "Will these fit you?" And I said, "No." And he said, "Don't let anyone ever tell you, you can't fill my shoes. You're not meant to fill them."
~ TREVOR NOAH ~ Chris Smith

I think it's better to have ideas. ~ Chris Rock

When students become empowered to ask questions and seek out answers, everything changes, and you cannot - and should not - think that you can leave inquiry at the classroom door. When teachers see themselves as learners and researchers and planners, they will question traditions and policies. And as a community, everyone has to learn how to bring these ideas to bear to make the school whole. We must understand that this is what is ~ Chris Lehmann

The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the world, we have to be real, we have to accept that we can't spend as much money on everything as we would like and so we have chosen to re prioritise, to change spending. ~ Chris Bowen

I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now! ~ Chris O'Dowd

I'm honestly kind of scared of horror films. My girlfriend always tries to expose them to me. Being in a scary movie and seeing all the fake blood and stuff definitely takes away from the magic and kind of humanizes scary movies to me now, though. ~ Chris Carmack

The direct market has evolved into a machine that is very good at selling corporate-owned superhero titles published by two main companies: DC and Marvel. ~ Chris Roberson

Its Friday! High Five! ~ Chris Hankin

I want to put the joy of creativity, of drawing every day, of having a go and being surprised at what one can achieve with just a pencil and an idea at the heart of my term as laureate. I want to make sure people have fun whilst addressing fundamental issues I care about passionately. ~ Chris Riddell

He is a leader among leaders. ~ Chris Carter

Oh Dick, you eroticise what you're not, secretly hoping that the other person knows what you're performing and that they're performing too. ~ Chris Kraus

Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression. ~ Chris Gethard

If someone were to ask me before I made the NBA, you going to have to go through all this, you're going to have to sign your soul away to play in the league, I still would have done it. ~ Chris Webber

Outside of performing, (a comedian) is someone who is analyzing life, thinking about it and trying to be observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel on the outside looking in. ~ Chris Gethard

The lucid, rational part of Billie wanted to laugh. Here she was, out in the woods of middle-class suburbia, with a man's fingers inside her panties, inside her, a climax of unimaginable force trembling at the edge of her grasp. And the man who now plied her and played her ... a prostitute. A gigolo. A beloved brother and son and uncle, and a suspect, with too many secrets and too much sexual prowess.
A man she was falling in love with.
The impossibility of it, the crazy, twisted potential swept over her, then ebbed, lost in the surge of unbelievable pleasure that built and built within her like strings drawn too tightly across a fine-tuned instrument. She would die from this, die and scatter into a million fragments and drift like dust on the wind. ~ Shelby Reed

Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you won't even attempt it. ~ Chris Prentiss

You know what I think that button [in Kremlin] should have read? It should've read "delete." Y'know, she [Hillary Clinton] is very good at that by the way. ~ Chris Christie

Suddenly it was if she was merely a brain, being transported inside the skull of some hideous fleshy machine, a piece of living cargo in someone else's body. ~ Chris Wooding

Trouble is our only defense against boredom. ~ Chris Fuhrman

My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted. ~ Chris Rock

I have found that the morning is far more accessible when a good book awaits you. ~ Chris Matakas

He went through rooms he named as he discovered them, and which he hardly had time to appreciate before he'd flung open a door at the far end and plunged through ... and in the Library of All the Same Book he actually stopped to examine a few of the volumes, all titled Various, that lined the shelves. ~ Chris Adrian

Accept and allow. This is the key to living a life full of Love. ~ Chris Johnson

I don't just write letters. I write laws. ~ Chris Smith

I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown. ~ Taylor Swift

For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close. ~ Chris Espinosa

My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again. ~ Chris Cornell

IN THE WEEKS THAT FOLLOWED, Livia played a new game every day. It was always some version of "Ignore Chris and Pretend Nothing's Wrong With That. ~ Debra Anastasia

Never go to clubs with metal detectors. Sure it feels safe inside. But what about all those niggas waiting outside with guns? They know you ain't got one. ~ Chris Rock

If there is anything I've learned being the mother of many children, it's that you'd better laugh at yourself, because everyone else already is. ~ Chris Jordan