Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end.

To build refuges of my own making is to construct fortresses of sand at ocean’s edge, where the relentless tides of time will leave my most magnificently constructed walls as perfectly flat sand. And now that I am subject to the very tides that destroyed these walls of mine, I am left with the reality that my single and sole refuge can only be the God who created both tides and sand.

I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.

The problem is not that we don’t recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don’t want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it.

One sure way I can avoid facing myself is by refusing to look into the face of God.

Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.

To be alone with myself in the space of silence is horrifying, for I know with the utmost certainty that in that space I will hear the very things that I constantly use the clamor to drown out. And so the question becomes, how long can I keep up all the noise?

If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel my abilities into the wrong places.