“Some things must be pursued, or they may in fact pursue us.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If God had to build a door, it’s because we erected a wall.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Life is so utterly enraptured with beginnings that it can do little else than perpetually create space for them. And those spaces… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Bravery is not the absence of fear, for then I doubt that anyone would be truly brave. Rather, it is passion clothed… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I would rather have the approval of God over the accolades of men. For while men might 'lift' me up, God is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if perchance I choose to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Maybe we were chosen because in being chosen we were granted the power to choose another who needed to be chosen worse… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Maybe we should remember that logic constructs a box that is far too small for wonder to take up residence in. Therefore,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“God will always want me more than I will want Him. And it seems quite reasonable to me that the greatest way… — 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The ‘night before Christmas’ was in reality the last night before a forever morning.” — 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
“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
“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
“God has no interest in filling the holes within us. Rather, He wishes to eliminate them.” — 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
“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
“God poses no threat to me other than keeping me from being my own greatest threat.” — 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
“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
