Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The greatest loss lies in our inability to accept loss.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A hole is a space where everything has been moved out so that opportunity has space to move in.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Too often my solution is to let something die because I can’t keep it alive, when God’s solution is to let something live because His Son already died for it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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 losses, and singularly traversed by those with a limp in their step.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We can’t even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We lose the understanding that death always begets life of some sort, and that life is always an opportunist, persistently standing ready to build something out of the smoldering ashes and raise something up out of the tangled carnage.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There’s something of a restorative quality about spring, where something whispers wild rumors of new beginnings arising from the seemingly dead seeds in our lives. There’s something almost cruel about it all, as if there might be some sort of truth about a new life actually being possible. Yet, maybe it is true.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Life however is teeming with vitality and is likewise terribly tenacious, holding on against impossible odds in impossible situations over impossible lengths of time.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the very thing I used my imagination to avoid.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Christmas is God deciding to become what He never had been, so that we can become what we never could be. And so, God does the most improbable thing imaginable. He orchestrates His own birth.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I often wonder if my imagination is one of God’s choicest gifts bestowed upon me to deliberately break me free from the frequent doldrums of my humanity.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I wholly unleash my imagination and forcefully stretch it out beyond its own edges, even at such a point I can only imagine a thin shard of this most immense God. And even though it is but a thin shard, it will nonetheless be mesmerizingly colossal.

~ 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

Maybe consequences are dear friends in stealthy disguise.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Why is it when I pursue the praises of men I find myself with everything that I’ve looked for but nothing that I need? That’s because I have an extraordinary habit of looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I incessantly look for water in wells dug by men, and I have drunk enough sand to prove it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Is safety the ‘dream’ that will kill all of my other ‘dreams?’ For the truth is, no ‘real’ dream is safe.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To dream only of what is ‘possible’ is to be fooled into believing that one is dreaming in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When surrounded by the ashes of all that I once cherished, despite my best efforts I can find no room to be thankful. But standing there amidst endless ash I must remember that although the ashes surround me, God surrounds the ashes. And once that realization settles upon me, I am what I thought I could never be ... I am thankful for ashes.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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 room that one day it would be perfect. And if there is nothing else I can find to be thankful for, let me begin here.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The Christmas story is penmanship of the most brilliant sort, where God crafted a beginning that would never be subject to an ending.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The best way to see majesty is to strip away everything that pretends to be majestic so that which is fake wholly collapses in the face of that which is majestic. And God in a manger is likely the most remarkable example we have of such a monumental truth.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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 value. My value rests in the fact that I am an accomplishment of God so incalculably valuable that He gave up Himself rather than give me up.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

God chose to deliberately venture into and intentionally occupy depths far below and infinitely beyond that which any human has ever descended, and then to raise Himself back up to glory from those horridly dark places. And I pray that we never miss the fact that Christmas is God’s invitation for us to join Him in the rising.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Christmas embodies everything that I need. However, everything that I need is often made up of a lot of stuff I don’t want.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I would like to say that I’m sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that I’m not?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

More often than not, rejecting rescue is in reality rejecting our need to be rescued. And it may very well be that is why so many reject Christmas.

~ 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 that this is the single and sole way that God can reach me in the suffocating poverty that I myself have created.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

What we’re searching for will determine where we arrive, or if we arrive. And right in the middle of such risky choices, Christmas is God perfectly solving the problem by showing us what to search for and then bringing it to us.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It’s not so much about writing the story of Christmas itself, as ingenious as it is. In reality, it’s much more about writing the story of Christmas into the story of life so that it will become the story of life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

This is the wonder of Christmas, that in the solitary form of an impoverished infant God has handed me everything that I could never create so that I can be everything that I could never be.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I worship the fact that I don’t worship anything, amongst other things what I’m worshipping is denial.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

What insanity causes a king abandon the comforts of his kingdom and willfully discard the privileges of royalty in order to save an ornery and rebellious people who have spent a lifetime rejecting him? We have yet to understand that such an action is nothing of insanity. Rather, it is everything of love.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The cross unerringly exposes this stunningly marvelous and abruptly exquisite declaration that God will not let this single life of mine, with all of its grotesque maladies and pathetic filth pass into oblivion without unflinchingly declaring that my life carries a value worth the expenditure of His. And if I dare look upon the cross, I am utterly perplexed but wholly enraptured by the immensity of such a love as this.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

For once in my life maybe I ought to actually think about taking God at His word, and in doing so to suddenly find myself riotously welcoming the rather shocking reality that Christmas is truly everything that He says it is.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough