Craig D. Lounsbrough

"I think that it is infinitely wiser to accept the fact that we’re afraid, for in accepting our fear we are in no way granting it the power to crush us. Rather we are finally empowering ourselves sufficiently so that we can crush it."

"If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible."

"I would surmise that we must cherish the resources that God has given us to achieve a goal more than we cherish the goal itself. For if we fall victim to the pursuit of the goal alone, then the goal has suddenly become our god."

"The ‘fact’ of my actions frequently collide with the ‘fiction’ of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?"

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

"If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down."

"Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go."

"The only reason I can’t jump in and engage life is that I’ve told myself I can’t. Yet I can’t helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could?"

"The worst of me is the raw material from which God molds the best of me."

"My soul is utterly frantic for that single place of perfect refuge from which I can clearly see the winds rip and hear the tempest tear, yet despite the ferocity of the tumult I rest in such a sublime peace it is as if neither existed at all. And if I have not yet found such a place, it is because I have not yet found God."

"Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less?"

"The romantic within us is a harbinger of our deepest desires."