37 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough about rescue
- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
-
Quote
I don’t think that I want God to come ‘to’ me, for that suggests an encounter that I might enjoy. Rather, I think I want God to come ‘for’ me for that evidences the rescue that I need.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
-
Quote
It is when I finally come to realize that the sum total of ‘who I am’ is less than what I need to save ‘who I am’ that I have then created space for God to be the great “I AM WHO I AM.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
-
Quote
Every gift that we will ever receive, bar one, will die ‘with us.’ The only gift that died ‘for us’ so that nothing ever need die ‘with us’ is the gift that God handed us on Christmas. And as for me, I done with all the dying.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
-
Quote
The pit is of my own making. The rescue is of God's love. And the deliverance is my acceptance of both.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
-
Quote
To be rescued rather painfully points out the fact that we don’t have the resources to rescue ourselves. Thanks to the stubbornness of our stale pride we choose to refuse rescue and embrace anguish, which means that the greatest thing that we need to be rescued from is ourselves.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
-
Quote
If Christmas is not everything that it says it is, neither is anything else.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
-
Quote
When I show up to rescue myself I soon realize that I am less than what I need and that my need is greater than who I am. Hence, God showed up on Christmas to be more than both.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
-
Quote
More often than not, rejecting rescue is in reality rejecting our need to be rescued. And it may very well be that is why so many reject Christmas.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
-
Quote
To strategize a rescue mission irrefutably capable of saving every human being is leagues beyond our ability to comprehend, and enormous beyond any resource we possess to execute. And to embark upon just such a mission fully knowing that without our death the mission will fall to failure is bravery of the greatest sort imaginable. Yet, that is exactly what Christmas is.
- Tags
- Share