Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

Easter is a marvelous affirmation of the genius of our design, but it is likewise the blunt acknowledgement that left to its own devices, the genius of our design will result in the destruction of our lives.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can’t manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only ‘find’ these things, we will never sense any compulsion to ‘find’ God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

My fear of endings too often blocks my hope of beginnings.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Any dream that I am absolutely confident I can achieve should immediately be discarded for the simple reason that it is simply too small.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The hands of man can manufacture many things both penetratingly brilliant and utterly astounding. Yet, despite their amazing dexterity and profound skill they cannot manufacture hope. Such a masterpiece as that is left for the hands of God and a manger crafted by those hands.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There was a moment when any hope within me froze solid and I was finally emptied of all energy to fight the cold. And at the very point of that very surrender, when I became convinced that I must bow to a world that would be forever frigid, God cupped the hands of my soul and poured in the warmth of Christmas.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Where there is no hope, there is Christmas. And where there is no Christmas, there is no hope.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In my desperation, I have finally discovered that the only way that I can begin to fill the gaping hole within me is to be thankful for what’s there, and not angry for what’s not.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in that single loss forfeited the whole of my life and effectively wiped out any hope that I can or will do anything other than exist.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The worst of it is that while we continue to sink deeper into the muck and mire that we’ve created, in the very descent itself we ignorantly declare that in reality we are rising. And until desperation has crippled us sufficiently to confess the lie that we are lifting ourselves out of this mess, and until the panic of utter hopelessness has driven us to completely surrender all of the pathetic contrivances that we’ve fashioned that have put us there, we will never realize that God has readied solid ground that stands but a single step away

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Underneath the chaos there stirs a great plan. And it will be birthed only if I give it permission to do so because I have exercised the faith that it’s there.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to open my mouth. Therefore, maybe I should think about talking less.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is when I am cold, alone, bitterly forlorn and shuttered from all hope that you will see who I truly am. And my goal is that at those most precarious of moments, what you will see is Jesus holding you through my tears.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I scan the expanse of my heart and find it empty of everything except emptiness, it is because I ‘poured’ the whole of my passion into something other than God. And anything other than God will always be too ‘poor’ to be able to ‘pour’ back anything that can fill that kind of emptiness.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

True peace cannot be found in a ‘place’. Rather, it is found in a Person who can be with you in any ‘place’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I am not at 'peace', then I can be altogether confident that I've placed a larger 'piece' of myself in the hands of someone other than God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In the absence of faith, our dreams will move from feasible aspirations to implausible fantasy.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It’s not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it’s a lack of faith within me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I must not imagine what is ‘not’ as a means of escaping what ‘is’. Rather, I must understand what ‘is’ and imagine how I can make it what it is ‘not’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Maybe the truth of it all is that we’re just too fearful to give our faith enough running room to realize that this precariously thin path that led us to the end of this life is dwarfed to obscurity by the infinitely vast byway that begins immediately on the other side.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

God’s genius is as wide as the cosmos, while by comparison our intelligence can find room on the head of a pin.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Do I make up some ‘god’ in my mind, or do I make up my mind to know God?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I want to ‘think’ that I have all the answers. But if I ‘think’, I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I ‘think’ yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I hold in my hand a million ideas and more. But if I am puzzled as to why they have never leapt out of my hand and been birthed into the realities they were crafted to be, it is likely because the other hand has withheld the sacrifice that is necessary to birth an idea.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The road to success is paved with the hot asphalt of failure.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path.  For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough