“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
“Don’t believe the skeptics. Rather, be skeptical of their skepticism.” — 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
“Only one tree remained standing in a field cleared of trees. Yet that never deterred it from being a tree.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.” — 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
“The main barrier to our belief that life can be better is our belief that someone else is supposed to do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Underneath the chaos there stirs a great plan. And it will be birthed only if I give it permission to do so… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The legitimacy of something is not dependent upon my ability to explain it, for my inability to explain something often evidences the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“You have a God. You have a mind. You have a will. And somewhere you have a passion. And if you have… — 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 hide is our insecurities telling God that what we fear is bigger than Who He is. And in this case, maybe… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Death looks different when you know that death is not an end; when we realize that death is a passage of really… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“This week God clearly told me to get out of my boxes. And I rather quickly discovered that trading my current box… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“No matter the height of them, faith takes the mountains that stand in front of us and makes them the road that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Trust is fragile. Yet, the forces that crush it are not. Therefore, the person who is willing to extend trust into an… — 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
“It’s not the world that enslaves me. Rather, it’s my attitude about the world as positioned against the rather faltering belief that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“At the moment that everything goes dark, the sunset in front of us becomes the whole story. But if we find courage… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“My rather arrogant attitude deludes me into believing that my ability to understand something is the criteria for its legitimacy. And if… — 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
“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
“God has no interest in filling the holes within us. Rather, He wishes to eliminate them.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“With God, a mountain before me is soon to be a memory behind me.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.” — 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
“A road never defines a journey. Rather, it is defined by the heart that has decided to walk the road.” — 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… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“What you can’t do lies far beyond what you think you can’t do.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It’s not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it’s a lack of faith within me.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Once faith dies, the death of hope follows hard on its heels.” — 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
“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
“How often do we wonder if what we believe in actually believes in us?” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To underestimate what you can do is to overestimate what you can’t.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.” — 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
“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
