“We must always remember that the darkness might hide everything, but it eliminates nothing.” FaithHopeDarkDarknessConfidenceHopefulHiddenSteal Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The darkness might keep us from seeing the hope around us, but it does not have the power to remove the hope around us.” GodChristianPainHopeJesusDarkDarknessTroubleHopefulDifficulties Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“As I stand cloaked in some seemingly perpetual darkness desperately hoping for a scant ray of light, I ask, “Why has the sun never risen?” And I realize that it rose a long, long time ago. I just refused to open my eyes sufficiently to see it.” GodChristianFaithHopeJesusFearDarknessSunHopeless Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I don’t define darkness as the absence of light. Rather, I define it as the absence of God. And in that sense, it’s never dark.” GodLightChristianFaithHopeJesusBeliefDarkDarkness Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.” GodLightFaithHopeDarknessSunsetHopefulSunrisePossibilitiesNew Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.” GodLightHopeDarkDarknessExcuseQuittingJustifyJustificationExcusesIlluminationDirectionRationalizeRationalizationQuitterQuitIlluminate Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Darkness cannot extinguish the light. Only our lack of faith in the light can do that.” GodLightFaithHopeJesusDarkSalvationRedemptionGospel Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Sometimes I am so desperately worn by life that I want nothing more than to hear a robin call out into the darkened chill of life’s morning. And I need that as its call assures me that the soothing warmth of spring is hot on winter’s chilled heels. And so desperate was I that this morning God gave me a flock of them.” GodLightHopePeaceDarkSadSpringWinterRobin Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Of necessity, our imagination must embrace the dark reality of ‘what is’ as a precursor to ‘what could be.’ For then and only then will we see in the darkness of today the certain light of tomorrow.” GodLightTodayChristianHopeImaginationDarkVisionTomorrowPossibilities Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I can take everything that I am and bring the whole of it to bear on the darkness in your life. But it will do you no good. It will cast no light. It will lend no hope. And therefore, I don’t wish to gift you with the disappointment of myself. Rather, I would wish to point you away from myself and direct you to the God in Whom you will find everything that I could never be, for it was within Him that I became everything that I never was.” GodChristianHumanityHopeJesusPeaceHumilitySalvationRedemption Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“In the end, the only thing that a life unreclaimed by God can claim is that it has nothing to claim despite claims to the contrary.” GodChristianPurposeHopeJesusPeaceSalvationRedemptionJustification Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Peace on earth.” “Goodwill toward men.” “Tidings of comfort and joy.” Are these things not the very embodiment of our deepest desires and most vigorous passions? Are these not that which we yearn for? And yet, despite the fact that we thirst for them with a longing indescribable, we are left with the wretched reality that we have been unable to achieve them. Yet, that is the reason and rationale for Christmas itself. For such passions might elude our ability to weave these things firmly into the tapestry our existence. Yet God came on Christmas so that they might become our existence.” LoveGodHappinessJoyHopeJesusPeaceChristmasHolidayGoodwill Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Peace as rumor and hope as the stuff of myth is the manifestation of the person who cannot see beyond the short horizon of circumstance.” DreamPassionHopePeaceVisionMythHorizonRumor Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Apathy is hope relegated to myth.” HopeMythFoolishMediocrityApathyPassiveApathetic Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Paradise is not something that we create. Rather, it is something that we find.” GodFaithHopeJesusHeavenChristmasParadiseDiscoverHolidays Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough