3,025 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

Although I’m a bit tentative about it all, I would like to say that if my death saved your life I would gladly engage in such an exchange. But if I must make that exchange knowing that you are likely to reject it, and that you will turn on it and brutally ridicule it until the beauty of my sacrifice is altogether destroyed, I cannot imagine taking such an action. Yet, God does that every single day.

I think that the stories that God has told and the things that He has done seem utter implausible to us only because we lock Him into the tiny rubrics that the stories He has told and the things that He has done invite us outside of.

Do you fear taking on the task of changing the world because a task of this magnitude as held against the puny totality of who you are suggests that such a task is ridiculous beyond imagination? Well, imagine God standing beside you and then what can you imagine?

The visionless will declare a vision as the pathetic muse of the weak-minded, or some dreamer having fallen victim to the lamentable fiction of their own dreams. And for those with vision, we must remember that it is the criticism of the vision that lends credibility to the fact that it is not only a vision, but a worthy one.

Christmas is God deciding to find people who didn’t want to be found but could not afford not to be found.

Christmas is God dreaming of something ingeniously outrageous and refusing to let the unimaginable magnitude of such a dream and the scrutiny that it is certain to endure impede the implementation of the dream. And is Christmas not God saying, ‘Go and do likewise?

God doesn’t ask if something can be done. Nor does He ask if we have the resources to do it. For God is bound by neither question. And when we stand with God, neither are we.

Do not be ashamed of who you are, for in doing so you are not taking into account the majesty of all that you are. And without any shred of doubt I know that you are a person of majesty, for in my innumerable years of working with people I have yet to find even one person who is not.

Stand up and be the light that God created you to be. Stand with me and the millions of others like both of us who have bowed before this inexplicably marvelous God of ours and in the bowing have begged that He not let us die until the darkness in the world around us has died first.