Quotes from Craig D. Lounsbrough

I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path. For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible.

To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don't have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful.

I say that my value is based on my accomplishments. Christmas is God saying that I am His accomplishment and that will forever be enough.

Christmas is everything that God would do, and nothing that we would imagine Him doing.

Christmas is a clandestinely ingenious script that outlines a plan to reclaim mankind through a strategy unimagined and unimaginable. This strategy involved God writing His own death into the script.

We cannot humanize the fact that the story was penned to have the eternal God, Who Himself knows no beginning nor is in need of one, choose to experience a beginning. That is genius in and of itself.

Christmas was an ingenious plan designed by God to lay siege to the hearts of all men by submitting Himself to the greed of all men.

Christmas was about understanding that servanthood would win the hearts of men for eternity, where raw power might win them only for a moment, if at all.

Christmas is not a story birthed of a humanized god for it simply doesn't fit into the rubric of such an emaciated plot.

Christmas is God saving mankind from the folly of mankind's grandiose sense of greatness.

Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness.

It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.

Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on.

The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.

If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap other than the conviction that they believe they do.

There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it's time to believe the gnawing.

If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.

It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.

With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea.

The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.

It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.

The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom.

We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.

Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we might come to the precious realization of how little we've actually lived in the first place?