3,025 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

My faith is not some pathetic emotional escape from a reality that I am unable to cope with. Rather, my faith is the power to change that reality by changing me so that I can change it. And from that, I don’t need any escape nor do I want one.

Without unreservedly surrendering myself to God, whatever place I might raise myself to remains nothing more than a step or possibly two off the hard basement floor of life, for of myself I can be utterly assured that I will never step out of the basement.

It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.

Is something really ‘too late,’ or is that the excuse I use because I’m ‘too afraid?

Tomorrow’s successes are evidence of yesterday’s dreams that have been wrestled alive by today’s sacrifices.

It is not a matter of the size of the mountains that stand before us. For although the size of our faith might ‘pale’ in comparison, the size of our God handily ‘impales’ all comparisons.

It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.

So, there’s this hornet’s nest. And there’s this long stick. And then there’s me. How I walk away from all of this will depend on whether I realize that some things go together and some things don’t no matter how hard you try.

How can I claim to be the center of my universe when I can’t even conceptualize that which I claim to be the center of?