“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
“To feel helpless is to acknowledge our limitations, but it does not have to be an acceptance of them.” — 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
“God is not interested in parts of you, for having a part will never change the whole.” — 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's love is marvelous and mysterious, and no effort of man - no matter how elegant or purposeful - can explain that.” — 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
“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
“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
“Lord, please run the world today and release me of my perceived need to do that, for if you don’t, I’m destined… — 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
“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
“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
“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 we feel dead inside, it’s likely because we’ve been on a killing rampage most of our lives. But we must remember… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow’ is the thing that’s always coming but never arrives. ‘Today’ is the thing that’s already here and never leaves. And because… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Thankfully, what God does is always bigger than our ability to contain it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The ‘night before Christmas’ was in reality the last night before a forever morning.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Once faith dies, the death of hope follows hard on its heels.” — 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
“With God, a mountain before me is soon to be a memory behind me.” — 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 holds the power of authentic freedom that both begs and invites us onward to wild liberation.” — 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
“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’s greatest gifts in our life are the very things that break us out of our life.” — 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
“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
“If I demand to be both the craftsman and the tool, I will be neither.” — 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
“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
