“If God had to build a door, it’s because we erected a wall.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to praise myself. Rather, I want to praise the thing that saves me from myself. Hence there is God.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To attempt to make myself clean is only to become dirtier in the cleaning.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“True peace cannot be found in a ‘place’. Rather, it is found in a Person who can be with you in any… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I am made in the image of God. Therefore, if I don’t know God I can’t know me.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“What's the purpose in all of this if there's not a purpose in all of this?” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If keeping your word is the mark of a weak person, I pray for more weak people.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If it’s big enough for us to handle, God’s not in it and we shouldn’t be either.” — 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
“I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“There is no depth that exceeds the reach of the God who is, at this very moment, seeking you out in the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“She’s gone,” I say over and over. And with her went the dreams that made my life worth the living. Yet, God… — 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
“To only see ‘death’ in death is to somehow assume that death itself is a barrier so abrupt that God Himself is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“A father teaches his children that the battle is not determined by the enemy that stands around them, but by the God… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The idea is to always be attempting things that are greater than who I am. Otherwise I will never be more than… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Do not be fooled. Passive prayers hastily tossed out as some second-thought appeasement at those junctures when life’s more pressing duties benevolently… — 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
“To give myself over in the service of others may mean that I will forfeit everything that I want, but it also… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Despite my intellectual attempts to grasp it, I remain confounded beyond all repair to understand how God believes in us enough to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can’t manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Confidence is a word born of a deeply primal wish. And it is rendered a wish simply because it is rarely a… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Do not mistakenly define ‘impossible’ as that which is merely difficult. For that creates the sickening illusion that such an incredible and… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Strength is what is granted to me by God so that He might show through me what He wishes to do through… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“God is not interested in parts of you, for having a part will never change the whole.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“When our lives are difficult beyond description, we must remember that our God is good beyond explanation.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is bliss' only if you're ignorant enough to believe that that's where bliss comes from.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Faith is refusing to believe that the degree to which I understand something is the degree to which it exists.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The fact that God is not doing ‘great things’ in the way that we would do them is a great thing.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“There is far more to this existence than how men have defined it through the exhibition of their limitations.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“You can live without God, but to do so is to live without living.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Just because Satan is the father of lies doesn’t mean that you have to adopt him as your daddy.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — 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 Image
“I’m not trying to save you from yourself. I’m trying to help you save yourself from yourself.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“It’s better to die for what’s right than live for what’s wrong.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
