“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Hope is never absent. What’s absent is our faith in a reality that’s never absent.” — 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
“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
“If I demand to be both the craftsman and the tool, I will be neither.” — 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
“In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.” — 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
“My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals.” — 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
“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
“God is confident enough in me to be all things confident for me.” — 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
“Death is a reality that calls the rest of life and all of our assorted strivings into sharp relief.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“I’m not trying to save you from yourself. I’m trying to help you save yourself from yourself.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Darkness is the absence of light. Therefore, darkness is always fleeing from where light is and scurrying off to where it is not. So… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
