3,025 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

Faith in God is believing that the size of the giant never dictates the size of the stone. It’s just being willing to use it.

The Bible says that “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” But I would wonder if the greater fool is the one who (in his stubbornness) incessantly tells himself there is no God because there’s just enough God in him somewhere that’s incessantly telling him otherwise.

Our fear frequently takes the reality of a situation and mythologizes it. And in the end, the ‘myth’ becomes the monster while the ‘fact’ remains the short guy behind the curtain.

Real writing is about changing lives for eternity rather than entertaining a life for a moment.

It is in embracing an unwavering adherence to Biblical principles that we will find a sustainable argument for the conviction that ‘sacrifice is the only sensible vocation.’ And it is the irresistible nature of that argument that can lift us above the incessantly gnawing desire to make ourselves the only vocation.

Sacrifice is the only sensible vocation.

I have long stopped attempting to define what is right. For I have found that the quietly seductive nature of my own biases in combination with the pettiness of that which is culturally vogue can handily take that which is patently ‘wrong’ and make it appear gloriously ‘right.’ And I have found it infinitely easier to let God define all of that for me.

It's really not about reading a good book.  Rather, it about being transformed by great ideas.

I am a student of scripture, not an editor of it.