A View From the Front Porch Quotes

“When I’m at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be ‘how do I get out of this hole?’ In reality, the main question might be ‘how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus

“I think we need to consider a radical rewrite of any form of patriotism that serves the individual at the expense of the community, as that is nothing more than patriotism to one's own small and solitary cause.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus

“I would entertain the apparently fading idea that patriotism that serves the self is greed dressed in the garments of liberty and adorned with the fashion accessories of other associated patriotic notions.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus

“Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of light.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus

“At some point I hope to have grown sufficiently in both stature and wisdom to understand that I cannot deliver myself from myself, and that God alone can save me from me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus

“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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus

“We have forfeited our calling for the simple reason that we’ve ignored the God who says that the ‘possible’ is never bound by the ‘probable,’ and instead we’ve dutifully heeded the god of fear that incessantly says the ‘possible’ is anything but ‘probable.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus

“Too often there is this sinister greed that pulls at my coattails, subtly whispering in the ear of my soul that it is within my rights to tuck away a few dark trinkets to toy with when the tedium of righteous living gets a bit boring. But God would suggest that I empty my pockets.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus

“Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus