Quotes from Craig D. Lounsbrough

The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to open my mouth. Therefore, maybe I should think about talking less.

True peace cannot be found in a 'place'. Rather, it is found in a Person who can be with you in any 'place'.

If I am not at 'peace', then I can be altogether confident that I've placed a larger 'piece' of myself in the hands of someone other than God.

In the absence of faith, our dreams will move from feasible aspirations to implausible fantasy.

Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man.

Do I make up some 'god' in my mind, or do I make up my mind to know God?

As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I'm afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.

Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don't even go looking for angels.

Fate' and 'coincidence' are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a 'greater purpose', because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a 'Greater Being'.

God's eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us.

To judge someone is to say that I have the right to define who they are, verses understanding that God has handed me the priceless privilege of discovering who they are.

To even begin to embrace the magnitude of God's vision, we must first embrace our vision as being nothing more than vision by definition.

Men can dig wells, but they can't create water.

I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.

If I had any hand in it at all there's a chance that it might be beautiful, but it simply cannot not be majestic.

The best I can do is to 'pretend' that I'm my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I'm not pretending, and somehow that doesn't sound very god-like to me.

To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do so is suicidal. No wonder so many of us walk around looking like death warmed over.

If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.

With God, the word 'impossible' is itself impossible.

To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees.

In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God.

If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.

To attempt to know myself 'apart' from God is to choose to know nothing more than 'a part' of myself.

Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.