3,025 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

With God, my brokenness is nothing more than the platform from which He can demonstrate why He is God.

What is being late other than the time-table that I have assigned to something because I’m not certain God’s got a watch that’s in synch with mine.

Hope is not based on the off-chance that things ‘might’ work out for us, for that kind of thinking is based on the perception that God’s will can be taken captive by our circumstances. Rather, hope is based on a God for whom circumstances are the working out of His will.

I have repeatedly found that the darkness is often the thickest at the very moment that it is about to perish at the hands of the light.

Pray is not the exercise of the faint-hearted, for it takes more determination than we can imagine to set aside the press of our agendas in order to partner with God in the working out of His.

Will we choose to be the ‘pieces’ that our sin has blown us into? Or will we turn to the God who can pick up each one and gently assemble them into the ‘whole’ that we’ve never known simply because it’s a ‘whole’ that He has never forgotten?

It’s not about crafting a ‘failed’ solution. It’s about ‘failing’ to stop crafting ‘failed’ solutions. Yet, such is the destiny of those who have yet to understand that a solution that does not include God solves nothing other than solving nothing. And that is no solution.

And while following God might be deemed by many as ignorance, or escapism, or legalism, or some other negative label, I would simply say, “Look around you.” “Look around you.” And in doing so ask, “Is the fool the one who continually attempts to sail sunken ships, or the one who follows a risen Christ?

There is that incessantly gnawing loneliness that leaves us ever-restless, eventually driving us to embark upon some endless journey supposing that whatever would fill us is held in some hidden treasure that lays silently buried in a yet undiscovered place. Yet, it would do us well to understand that this loneliness is no more and no less than the image of the infinite God ever-stirring within us and all the while begging to be unleashed.