3,025 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

I have rendered God invisible only because the size of Him terrifies me and the thought of myself in comparison to Him swallows me whole. But, is it not in being swallowed up by God’s size that I am at the self-same moment freed of everything that makes me small?

For many, their dream is simply to survive until tomorrow. And in these situations, my prayer is not that God would alter their circumstances nor change their heart. Rather, it is that they would invite God into both.

It is the storm that I watch so that it will not catch me unawares, when I should be watching God in the storm so that He can catch me in the waves.

What makes me think that I can define reality when I can scarcely define myself.

Beating the impossible never starts when we reach for the stars. Rather, it starts when we fall to our knees.

I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have come to prayer broken far beyond any conceivable hope of repair. I have likewise come without anywhere to turn simply because, much like myself, everything around me lies broken beyond repair. And I cannot tell you how many times God has taken that which is broken and has used it to do what could never have done should any of that had been whole.

Truth is not something I create to serve my agenda.  Rather, truth is something created to save me from my agenda.

In no way does God’s absence call His existence into question. To the contrary, His absence calls into question my unwillingness to surrender to His existence.

Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.