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“The best way to see majesty is to strip away everything that pretends to be majestic so that which is fake wholly collapses in the face of that which is majestic. And God in a manger is likely the most remarkable example we have of such a monumental truth.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Despite my incessant desperation, I simply cannot paint the perfect picture within which I would wish to live out my life. And because I cannot, God picked up the brush of love, positioned the canvas of history and painted a manger.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I can only begin the process of saving myself when I surrender to the reality that I can’t. And what greater place to surrender that reality than to an infant who surrendered Himself to me so that I might surrender myself to Him.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The question is not how to get managersâ€� emotional commitment but why manager’s don’t give it even if they like their company.”
― Stan Slap

“MANGE DES MUFFINS!" - Bast”
― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

“Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too.”
― Stan Slap

“The Christmas story is penmanship of the most brilliant sort, where God crafted a beginning that would never be subject to an ending.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Given the lethal enormity of sin and the inestimable value of a single soul, a baby in a manger and a man on a cross makes more sense that anything else I will ever be able to possibly imagine.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Through the eyes of men an utterly irrational birth followed by a terribly improbable execution are miscues of the most pathetic sort. And all I can say is that I’m immeasurably thankful that I’ve been given access to the eyes of God.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Is my faith so terribly pathetic that I have diminished God to the point that I doubt His ability to survive in the very world that He came to save? Indeed, I have done exactly that. And all I need to do to beat that mentality is to remember that a baby born in a manger with every disadvantage imaginable stills lives today.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The hands of man can manufacture many things both penetratingly brilliant and utterly astounding. Yet, despite their amazing dexterity and profound skill they cannot manufacture hope. Such a masterpiece as that is left for the hands of God and a manger crafted by those hands.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I look at a baby born in a manger and I ask, “Would I be willing to do that?â€� And the fact that I’m not evidences the need for Christmas.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Some doubt the Christmas story, placing it as a piece of fiction penned to perpetuate a myth. And could it be that the majesty of this story is so utterly vast that fiction is the only way that they could restrain it sufficiently to keep it from commandeering their lives?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Christmas is God coming to the very place that we would never think to look for Him. And I think He did that because we live in the very places that the world would never think to look for us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Jesus was born into a feeding trough that nourished the bodies of animals so that He could feed the souls of men.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When Christmas has passed, if I find that I am none the better for having engaged it, the only explanation that I can muster up is that I can be handed the greatest of gifts, yet still have the emptiest of hands. And finding myself in that dreadful condition, I am left to assume that the fool within me has chosen to live with the hands that now define me instead of embracing the God Who wishes to fill me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Les animaux se repaissent; l'homme mange; l'homme d'esprit seul sait manger.”
― Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie Du Gout. Tome 1 (Sciences)

“Un simple plat en sauce peut avoir un effet tranquillisant, quasi maternel. Même si, en vérité, c’est souvent meilleur avant de le manger. Les promesses trahies des spécialités locales qui, une fois en bouche, se révèlent originaires de Barquette-en-Alu me font le même effet qu’un copain qui vous raccroche au nez.”
― Fabien Maréchal, L'Attendeur (de Première classe)

“La Lauze est l’un de ces restaurants à la mode depuis quelques années à Paris. Sièges anguleux, ambiance en nuances de gris avec la signature bien en vue du designer au coin d’un comptoir patiné pour paraître authentique, et une assiette dressée autant pour le goût que pour les réseaux sociaux avec son voile de curry, son trait de jus de bette- rave et sa compotée de carotte bleue, comme si une sculpture de Niki de Saint Phalle s’était échappée du centre Pompidou pour se soulager dans votre hors-d’œuvre. On appelle cela la « bistronomie », je suppose qu’elle finira par envahir jusqu’Ã� Limoges, et le boudin aux pommes jettera les armes aux pieds des légions gustatives du XXIe siècle, tel Vercingétorix devant Jules César.”
― Fabien Maréchal, L'Attendeur (de Première classe)

“Advent asks of us in all our human filth to mend our broken ways through repentance and prepare in our hearts a room for His coming.”
― Allene vanOirschot