Quotes from Craig D. Lounsbrough

I cannot create greatness as I can only create weak facsimiles. And in sorting through the innumerable facsimiles around me, I will only happen upon true greatness when I happen upon the true God.

A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter.

Given the lethal enormity of sin and the inestimable value of a single soul, a baby in a manger and a man on a cross makes more sense that anything else I will ever be able to possibly imagine.

Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it's adhering to our scripts or not.

Looking back, I now realize that I left home in search of all the things that were right in the very place I left.

The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.

Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.

Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I'm ignoring behind me. Instead, it's most certain to drop it on top of me.

Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.

Hope is oxygen to the soul, and God is the oxygen of hope.

Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can't change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.

Our imagination is God's ingenious gift that hands us the privilege of romping and playing in realities that we can't see only because we've yet to create them.

Without an imagination we would be irreparably shackled to what is, and never be released to what could be.

I would suggest that our imagination is a tiny shard of God's infinite genius that we have within us simply because we were created in God's image.

The greatest imagination in all of existence is one that would be able to take 'nothing' and imagine 'something' from 'nothing.' And that is God.

The problem with the 'herd' is that our voice is never 'heard'.

A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good.

Judging others shackles them to the cold iron of our limited notions.

Have we ever thought to consider that the need to be loved grows because of its absence, but that love also grows because of its presence? And does this not speak to the power of love?

If I've prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

What is fear but that 'thing' that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.

The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.

What insanity would lead me to believe that I possess the power, much less the aptitude to manipulate all of the consequences out of all of my decisions?

If I have not been both soothed by love and on the opposite extreme left devastated by it, I will never understand its power nor respect its majesty.