3,025 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

The darkness might hide things really well, but it doesn’t have the power to make them disappear. And when it comes to our dreams, we might want to remember that.

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

Too often what I dislike in others is more about what I am and less about what I dislike in them. Therefore, if I make the changes in myself I’m less likely to criticize the the faults in another.

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.

The hand of God is wonderfully evident at those times when He pens stories whose lines we ourselves are far too fearful to pen or whose imaginations are far too limited to envision. And I would unashamedly suggest that the Christmas story is that very story.

Although we would prefer to tame it, love is less a nice idea and more a commitment to embracing love as far too massive to simply be a nice idea.

Fear is often bred of an imagination that couldn’t let something be what it actually was.

Given the lethal enormity of sin and the inestimable value of a single soul, a baby in a manger and a man on a cross makes more sense that anything else I will ever be able to possibly imagine.

Prayer penetrates the underside of heaven and sends the full force of an invisible realm hurdling against the adversaries that are too naïve to understand what’s about to descend upon them.