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The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey QUOTES

The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey QUOTES

1 " Space is the stuff that we fill, so sometimes we’d rather not have it because of the things that stand around the space eager to rush in and fill it to its edges. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

2 " It is not the discouragement in our faith that vexes us, although we often lay the guilt in that place. Rather, it is our discouragement in our ability to hold to our faith that torments us. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

3 " Some things will always and forever defy the denial that we take up to slay them. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

4 " Diversions and detours of our grandest designs only serve to bolster our need to be in the places that we’re vigorously trying to walk away from. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

5 " Life is full of running. The key to a life lived or an existence tolerated is held in the single decision as to the direction in which we will run. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

6 " If we stand for nothing we will likely become nothing and subsequently achieve nothing, for nothing can only breed more of itself. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

7 " Yet it seemed that God would derive infinitely more pleasure and draw intimately closer to the likes of us by putting majesty squarely in a manger. God made the poverty of our existence the place of His home. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

8 " Sometimes things call out to us and we know them with total certainty. Yet, the certainty eludes us and we’re left with the angst of the unknown regarding something that, in fact, we know. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

9 " The most difficult thing is not the belief in the infinite. No. The most difficult thing of all is to believe that the infinite would be so grand and gracious as to reside in the smallness of us. That is what requires the greatest faith. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

10 " Any road not informed by the past will certainly be an uncertain one. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

11 " Death looks different when you know that death is not an end; when we realize that death is a passage of really the most glorious kind. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

12 " What is ‘life,’ we ask?” The answer is quite simple. It is whatever’s left over after we’ve extracted the meddling of men. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

13 " Yet, adventure does not posit a firm destination that is abruptly final. How could it, for that is not the nature of adventure. Adventure is adventure because it does not end, which always leaves the question of “what is next” a question. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

14 " It is foolishness to think that you can leave a place your heart never left. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

15 " Faith steps beyond logic, thereby inviting logic to something higher than itself. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

16 " Far too often, the rewards for our efforts seem to be mere pennies as held against the fortune of time and sacrifice spent attempting to earn them. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

17 " Often in life, we draw conclusions and reflexively take action based on what we see; which in the majority of situations is achingly insignificant or just plain wrong. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

18 " It is in the grand contradictions of the deepest soul that great moments of life are afoot. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

19 " If we have nothing to live for, we have to create something to live for. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

20 " If we stand for nothing, it may be that we believe in nothing. And it may be that believing in nothing is the worst kind of believing of all. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough , The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey