Quotes from Craig D. Lounsbrough

Maybe I don't have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.

Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less?

Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God's beginning.

God emptied out that first tomb so that He could turn around and empty out me.

A god of the 'possible' is no God.

Easter is the final solution to the finality of death.

Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of 'doing' happens every day.

If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers.

I find that I spend a tremendous amount of time chasing the praises of men rather than sitting with the praises of God. The former is something I attempt to catch, the latter catches me.

The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.

The worst defeat of all is to surrender without having been defeated. And it is Christmas that obliterates both.

The promises of God hold up long after the promises of the world have blown up.

God has given me both the right and privilege to outrun Him if I so choose. Yet, if I do so, I will have lost the race.

To understand the mysteries of God we must move past the logic of men.

Despite my best effort to make myself as large as absolutely possible, life will always be larger than me. That simple fact makes God not only a likelihood, but a necessity.

The length of the fall is dictated by how far we had climbed. The outcome of the fall is dictated by whether we're holding on to that which we're climbing, or we're letting God hold onto us.

When standing face to face with myself, I far too often refuse to look in the mirror. When standing face to face with God, there is no place where a mirror is not.

The yardstick that we frequently use to determine if something can be restored is based on the handful of inches that we bring to the process, when God shows up with an infinite amount of miles.

The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we're listening.

I am always trying to figure God out so that I can figure Him in. But after a while I figure that I should just let God be God, and figure that He'll figure it all out anyway.

The worst of me is the raw material from which God molds the best of me.

We are quick to surrender that which we deem as long dead, when God is quick to restore that which He deems as never really having lived.

The worst thing that I can do is humanize God. The second worst thing that I can do is deify myself. And the best thing that I can do is to avoid both.

The extent of God's grace always eclipses the extent of my grotesqueness. Therefore, I can never be bad enough for God to tell me that He's had enough.