“If God had to build a door, it’s because we erected a wall.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Some things must be pursued, or they may in fact pursue us.” — 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
“The impossible was created in order to give us something to solve.” — 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
“If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.” — 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
“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
“You were not made to tend to the grave of your mistakes because God removed the coffin and backfilled the hole.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“An attitude of thankfulness keeps me centered when every attitude other than thankfulness promises me a center that it can’t find.” — 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
“There is a purpose in our pain that is greater than the pain itself. Therefore, to miss that purpose is the truest… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To refuse to sacrifice may in fact be the greatest sacrifice. For refusing to sacrifice means that I willfully throw away some… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The shortest route between where I’m at and where I want to go is a straight line. However, if where I want… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is my belief that any indentations that my knuckles may have left on the door of heaven found their origins from… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“If the journey I am on is of my terribly tedious design, dead ends will likely be my lot. If the journey… — 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
“To be a light on a hill we must be a people on our knees. We become a light when we realize… — 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
“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
“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
“We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“God poses no threat to me other than keeping me from being my own greatest threat.” — 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
“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
“Ignorance is bliss' only if you're ignorant enough to believe that that's where bliss comes from.” — 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
