Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me has now become a labyrinth that is set to destroy me. And laying spent in the rubble, I finally realize that there is only one fortress and I cannot create it because there is only one God."

"Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men."

"It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we’re going to survive life."

"There’s something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good."

"Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that’s the case, we should get busy returning them."

"If you think you can stand to know what you’re made of, try kneeling before God."

"We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be."

"If I had any hand in it at all there’s a chance that it might be beautiful, but it simply cannot not be majestic."

"To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I’m standing up."

"It is the length of the journey that ripens the joy of the outcome."

"If I wholly unleash my imagination and forcefully stretch it out beyond its own edges, even at such a point I can only imagine a thin shard of this most immense God. And even though it is but a thin shard, it will nonetheless be mesmerizingly colossal."

"Tomorrow’ is the thing that’s always coming but never arrives. ‘Today’ is the thing that’s already here and never leaves. And because that’s the case, I would much prefer to invest in today than sit around waiting for an arrival that’s not arriving."