Quotes from Craig D. Lounsbrough

I must look at the 'nature' of God, not the 'nature' of the challenge. For the former means everything and the latter means nothing.

I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I'd be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.

There appears to be value in getting past a mentality that good things can only rest in good things.

I much prefer not to fall, unless of course I am falling into the hands of God.

The greatest men stand on their values and pray on their knees.

I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table of the world instead of the feet of God.

To live safely within the realm of possibility is to know nothing other than that which is possible. To live boldly within the realm of God is to experience everything that's impossible.

Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in the eyes of God we are worthy of a miracle.

I am what no one else is, and in the hands of God I can do what no one else does. And if I dare set such a truth in motion I will change my world.

The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.

We ask, 'Why the need for God?' Maybe the better question is 'Why the need not to need Him?' And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in 'your image'. You are, in fact, made in 'God's image'. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

Once faith dies, the death of hope follows hard on its heels.

Strength other than that received from God is just hype manufactured by men.

Hope is not some thin thing that is subject to the winds of fate, but it is crafted hard by the hands of God.

Hope is not some thin thing that is subject to the winds of fate. Rather, it is something crafted hard by the hands of God.

With God, the impossible is not an obstacle but an invitation.

The message of Christmas is a message of hope when all other such messages created by men can do nothing more than be hopeful.

Where there is no hope, there is Christmas. And where there is no Christmas, there is no hope.

My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals.