“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
“When you change you are illustrating the fact that it can be done. And what people need today are illustrations.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“When we walk with God, we can know that pain is always on the short leash of love.” — 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
“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
“My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals.” — 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
“What insanity propels me to incessantly invest in a world that never ceases to fail me? And what ignorance bewitches me so… — 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
“Here’s the way to destroy your life in sixty seconds or less; convince yourself that something is ‘right’ simply because you want… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Was the challenge truly impossible, or was that in fact a product of my attitude? And if I had to make something… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The landscape of the world is littered with holes dug by men in search of water for their souls. But it is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“What’s special about a story if I could have thought it up? What’s special about a story if I was actually courageous… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The oddity of our existence is that we are capable of digging holes deeper than we are capable of getting ourselves out… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Tragedy descends, and in the carnage our enraged cynicism screams ‘If there was a God, He would not have allowed this!’ And… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Mankind cannot manufacture hope. Rather, it creates an innumerable array of ingeniously crafted facsimiles that are quite captivating. And it is Christmas… — 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
“I can chart my own path. However, I’ve yet to figure out why so many of my paths always seem to lead… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“God will never allow a flood in your life without providing you a boat within which the storm itself is repelled, the… — 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 thing about Christmas is that it tells us that we are never alone. But even more, it tells us that we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Godly ethics have boundaries that are impervious to the installation of gates regardless of which direction they might swing.” — 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
“Just knowing that God goes with us changes everything about the place that we’re going, as well as the place we were… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I think that we must come to the end of ourselves in order to understand that we are part of something much… — 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
“I would rather not know what light is, rather than have it and then lose it. For then the darkness that it… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Prayer is anything but the misled human being attempting self-sooth themselves against the pain that engulfs them. Rather, they are the people… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If my prayers have devolved into being nothing more than reciting a list of things that I want, I might as well… — 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
“There might be some brilliant intentionality in it all, that holiness was created to stand in mankind's filth to lift mankind out… — 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
“If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that… — 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
“Contradictions are the impossible chasms that create forever separations. God is the forever bridge that creates impossible reunions.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go… — 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
