“ Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ If left to my own simplistic devices and the sorely scant limits of my abilities, would I not die a death of the blandest sort imaginable? And should I not thank God that He graciously gifted me with… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginn… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Calm for too long begs the question of whether we're in an all-out pursuit of life, or we're all-out of the pursuit of life. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Sometimes things that appear completely irreconcilable and mutually exclusive serve a shared purpose that could not be achieved except through their contradiction. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Being our best is asking how can we take ourselves to the precipice of our own limits in any and every situation? Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Without an imagination we would be irreparably shackled to what is, and never be released to what could be. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ 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. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ To fill the fathomless caverns of my thirsty soul I must work entirely contrary to impulses of my own humanity, for it is in emptying myself at the very point where I am most empty that I fill myself. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Perfect majesty that deliberately chose to be born into abject poverty, walk a road of perpetual poverty, and be unjustly executed in the raw nakedness of poverty is utterly ludicrous unless I realize… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ I will not find myself, nor will I obtain any precarious morsel of life in giving all of life to myself. If I am ever to find these things, I must first be willing to give these things away at the ver… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Christmas is everything that God would do, and nothing that we would imagine Him doing. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature, that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Sometimes the grandest of all events are described in the poverty of a few simple words. Craig D. Lounsbrough
