Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter.”

“I say that my value is based on my accomplishments. Christmas is God saying that I am His accomplishment and that will forever be enough.”

“To only see ‘death’ in death is to somehow assume that death itself is a barrier so abrupt that God Himself is halted by it. To see ‘life’ in death is to understand that death is a sprawling horizon to a new beginning that God created long before death ever thought to show up.”

“We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.”

“Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.”

“If you want to completely destroy a child, all you have to do is mold them into your vision of what you want them to be. If you want to completely liberate a child, all you have to do is grow them into the person they were created to be. The former cannot see God in the child. The latter can see nothing less.”

“We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really ‘lived’ a day in our lives.”

“And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we’re on a grand adventure when we’ve completely forgotten what an adventure is.”

“If I get up just one less time than the number of times I’ve been knocked down, I have done one of the most devastating things possible; I have halted my life at that very spot.”

“Purpose declares that the trajectory of my existence and the course of human history were intentionally set to collide at this precise moment in time because what I have to offer human history is desperately needed at this precise time.”

“The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.”

“Love is a perpetual journey that is extraordinary because it will never find itself terminated by a destination.”

“With God, a mountain before me is soon to be a memory behind me.”

“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.”

“Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandiose things that we spend so much of our lives pretending to be, so that we can spend all of our lives being the exceptional person that we were actually created to be.”

“Hate feeds on itself, while love will always find itself fed.”

“Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.”

“God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives ‘declining’.”

“Christmas embodies everything that I need. However, everything that I need is often made up of a lot of stuff I don’t want.”

“We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’.”