“God is not interested in parts of you, for having a part will never change the whole.” — 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
“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
“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
“If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The impossible was created in order to give us something to solve.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is when I am cold, alone, bitterly forlorn and shuttered from all hope that you will see who I truly am.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Darkness is the absence of light. Therefore, darkness is always fleeing from where light is and scurrying off to where it is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To be enriched in the giving, I must at the self-same time be completely depleted by it. For if I am not… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The losses in my life are so immense that I can barely stand and hardly breath. But I must remember that it… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Keeping company with God does not determine what’s coming at me. However, it certainly impacts whether it decides to come.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The legitimacy of something is not dependent upon my ability to explain it, for my inability to explain something often evidences the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The death and resurrection of Jesus didn’t scrub us clean. Rather, it purged us of everything filthy so that scrubbing was unnecessary.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“To attempt to make myself clean is only to become dirtier in the cleaning.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“If the light we have is continually engulfed by the darkness in a way that makes the darkness even darker, maybe we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The things I’m burning daylight to figure out in my head are things God has already figured out in His. Faith then… — 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under it’s own weight and we with it. Forgiveness is freedom multiplied against… — 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
“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
“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
