“The ‘night before Christmas’ was in reality the last night before a forever morning.” — 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
“I am human. Therefore, I will fail you. God is not and will not.” — 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
“Faith is acknowledging what I can’t see as a means of embracing that which I cannot afford to miss.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Despite my incessant desperation, I simply cannot paint the perfect picture within which I would wish to live out my life. And… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If the light we have is continually engulfed by the darkness in a way that makes the darkness even darker, maybe we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if perchance I choose to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is when I am cold, alone, bitterly forlorn and shuttered from all hope that you will see who I truly am.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do so is… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Ethics are the things that say, 'Don’t stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It’s okay because we’ve shut off… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Preemptively interwoven into this ingeniously crafted existence is everything that we need to be everything that we are.” — 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
“You can live without God, but to do so is to live without living.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I am far too weak to help you. But God is not too weak to use me to help you.” — 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
“In the thoughtlessness of my incessant hurry, I have made God an ‘addendum in’ my life verses the ‘agenda of’ my life.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it… — 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
“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
“Why am I always lost in the woods,” I yell at the top of my voice! And if I choose to settle… — 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
“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
“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
