“God is not interested in parts of you, for having a part will never change the whole.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Strength other than that received from God is just hype manufactured by men.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Once faith dies, the death of hope follows hard on its heels.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“God has no interest in filling the holes within us. Rather, He wishes to eliminate them.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“God’s greatest gifts in our life are the very things that break us out of our life.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is not the absence of hope. Rather, it is the absence of our faith in hope.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“God is confident enough in me to be all things confident for me.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“With God, the setbacks of today are the precise ingredients that He needs to craft the victories of tomorrow.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The blight of our humanity rests in the fact that we have pushed aside the treasures of God in pursuit of the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is the storm that I watch so that it will not catch me unawares, when I should be watching God in… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I have learned that while I can apply any number of words in my attempt to ‘describe’ God, I simply cannot ‘define’… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to say that I believe in God. Rather, I want to live out my life like I believe in… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Although it often appears to be the case, retreating to God is not an impulse bred of cowardice. Rather, it is a… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The oddity of our existence is that we are capable of digging holes deeper than we are capable of getting ourselves out… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The landscape of the world is littered with holes dug by men in search of water for their souls. But it is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If you want to completely destroy a child, all you have to do is mold them into your vision of what you… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I scan the expanse of my heart and find it empty of everything except emptiness, it is because I ‘poured’ the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“God’s absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Tragedy descends, and in the carnage our enraged cynicism screams ‘If there was a God, He would not have allowed this!’ And… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Mankind cannot manufacture hope. Rather, it creates an innumerable array of ingeniously crafted facsimiles that are quite captivating. And it is Christmas… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Many times I have walked the road in the solemn hush of a winter’s snowfall. And it seems that the inexpressible peace… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I demand to be both the craftsman and the tool, I will be neither.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Don’t brutalize me with your agendas. Rather tell me who you are, for that is the agenda that matters the most.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Hope is never absent. What’s absent is our faith in a reality that’s never absent.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“When we walk with God, we can know that pain is always on the short leash of love.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“When you change you are illustrating the fact that it can be done. And what people need today are illustrations.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“In the absence of faith, our dreams will move from feasible aspirations to implausible fantasy.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Was the challenge truly impossible, or was that in fact a product of my attitude? And if I had to make something… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Here’s the way to destroy your life in sixty seconds or less; convince yourself that something is ‘right’ simply because you want… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I can chart my own path. However, I’ve yet to figure out why so many of my paths always seem to lead… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I am not at 'peace', then I can be altogether confident that I've placed a larger 'piece' of myself in the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Just knowing that God goes with us changes everything about the place that we’re going, as well as the place we were… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If my prayers have devolved into being nothing more than reciting a list of things that I want, I might as well… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I would rather not know what light is, rather than have it and then lose it. For then the darkness that it… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I think that we must come to the end of ourselves in order to understand that we are part of something much… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Death is a reality that calls the rest of life and all of our assorted strivings into sharp relief.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“I’m not trying to save you from yourself. I’m trying to help you save yourself from yourself.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the home of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“Thankfulness acknowledges that we can’t own anything, but we can experience everything. And just knowing that makes me thankful.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“Do not be fooled. Passive prayers hastily tossed out as some second-thought appeasement at those junctures when life’s more pressing duties benevolently grant us… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“Darkness is the absence of light. Therefore, darkness is always fleeing from where light is and scurrying off to where it is not. So… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
