Quotes By Author: craig d lounsbrough
“The unbelievable is nothing more than my lack of faith in action. Easter is nothing less than God building my faith by putting the unbelievable into action.”
“The statement, ‘this is as far as I can go’ is code for ‘I’m blind’, I’m scared’, or both.”
“If death is inevitable, who’s to say that there aren’t other things that are inevitable as well? A cross and an empty tomb say ‘yes’ and ‘yes’.”
“The most difficult thing is not the belief in the infinite. No. The most difficult thing of all is to believe that the infinite would be so grand and gracious as to reside in the smallness of us. That is what requires the greatest faith.”
“If I’m not willing to accept a God who does the impossible, I’m left with what’s possible. And that takes me no further than myself.”
“It is my passion to rise to great heights, but instead I dig holes where I plummet to great depths. And when will I learn that God trades shovels for wings?”
“My fear has brazenly taken pen in hand and redefined a horizon as the termination of everything instead of the beginning of many things. And the first thing I need to do is get my pen back.”
“Faith is not whittling God down to a size that I can comprehend. Rather, it’s whittling my need to control down to a size that God can intersect.”
“Easter recognizes that I am living in a prison of my own making, and that God is in the demolition business.”
“I need hope in something a lot bigger than me, for if I’m as good as it gets then I’m in big trouble.”
“The degree of the darkness that we’re experiencing today is nothing more than an indicator of how bright the coming light is going to be. And if we look at it that way, does it ever really get that dark?”
“If I’m only looking at an ending, I’ll assume that an ending is all that there is. And without a doubt, that kind of assumption is the beginning of the end.”
“Maybe every now and then I need something ‘unbelievable’ to happen to help make that which is ‘believable’ a place where I start, but not a place where I stop.”
“I can live a life anticipating beginnings or survive a life dreading endings. So maybe I should begin ending the dreading.”
“If I have faith, what I see as a wall in front of me is in reality a door that will soon be behind me.”