3,025 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

Although I too often see myself as powerless, the fact is the New Year is what I make it. And whatever I make it is what it makes me.

Dreams were meant to be born, not just dreamt about.

To have a rigorous imagination is to live in ‘what is’ while embracing all the possibilities of ‘what could be.’ To live a fantasy is an attempt to escape both.

We don’t have the power to change reality. However, we do have the power to destroy ourselves in the effort to avoid it.

Prayer is never the ‘last resort.’ Rather, it is always the ‘first response.’ For if I begin with prayer, there will never be a last resort.

Sometimes how high we can go depends on how low we have fallen, for it is in experiencing the depths that we finally become convinced of the heights.

We’re desperate for peace because it comes to us so rarely, and when it does, it seems to evaporate at the very moment that it draws near us. But that is peace based on circumstances that are as fleeting as the peace that comes with them, where the peace that comes with God makes everything else flee that draws near it.

With God, brokenness is nothing more than the stage upon which the impossible is about to happen.

When it comes to the challenges that we’re facing, they’re not necessarily as small as we would like them to be, but they’re probably not as big as we fear them to be.