Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye...

I am not the sum total of my accomplishments, for no matter how much I exhaust myself acquiring those accomplishments, the sum total of them will always be far too trifling to ever reflect my true val...

A life that chooses not to grow is a life that died long before it ever lived.

Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. T...

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

I am wholly deserving of all the consequences that I will in fact never receive simply because God unashamedly stepped in front of me on the cross, unflinchingly spread His arms so as to completely sh...

In reality, is being sedentary a choice to run from our calling by not running after it?

The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defe...

Ignorance is my refusal to think outside the box of my fears.

I ruthlessly expend my time and my energies seeking many random things, none of which will bless me in the way that I suppose they will, for despite my frequently stubborn resistance to the thought, t...

Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God's goal of the impossible.

Today I must look in the mirror and be thankful for the person who I find staring back at me. For although the reflection is terribly imperfect, and I know that full well, God created it with enough r...

Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether.

If we limit love to being nothing more than a feeling, we have no real feeling for what love is.

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

Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise o...

Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we not only survive to live...

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

Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake.

God has hewn out a hidden path more glorious, tantalizing and adventuresome than the path trod by most, and it is a path seen only through the eyes of our wounds, felt solely through the heart of our...