Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

We must leave Christmas to be what it is, for to reduce it to the stuff of myth and whimsy is take the single and sole hope of a dying humanity and obliterate it. And I would contend that such an action is insanity of the greatest sort.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

What insanity propels me to incessantly invest in a world that never ceases to fail me? And what ignorance bewitches me so thoroughly that it keeps me from investing in a God who never ceases to be unfailing?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To keep my life free of evil I must of necessity keep my life full of God, for keeping my life full of anything else will give evil everything else.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

God would have us cherish even the smallest of blessings, for in taking a blessing for granted we are well on our way to taking it to its grave.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The most elusive and ultimately impossible act of liberation is freedom from sin and self, and no document or declaration of man regardless of how exquisitely penned can do that. Such an astonishing act of liberation could only have been penned in one place: the cross.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I would be dreadfully remiss not to think that God would painstakingly craft something an intimately ingenious and inexplicably intricate as my life, and that by virtue of such sheer brilliance I should not examine it with the greatest precision and unleash it with the fullest abandon.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It would be infinitely more prudent to be a single “David” standing with God, than a million “Goliath’s” standing without Him.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that ‘other’ is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I ruthlessly expend my time and my energies seeking many random things, none of which will bless me in the way that I suppose they will, for despite my frequently stubborn resistance to the thought, the single and sole blessing that I can be utterly confident in is found in seeking God alone.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am wholly deserving of all the consequences that I will in fact never receive simply because God unashamedly stepped in front of me on the cross, unflinchingly spread His arms so as to completely shield me from the retribution that was mine to bear, and repeatedly took the blows. And I stand entirely unwounded, utterly lost in the fact that the while His body was pummeled and bloodied to death by that which was meant for me and me alone, I have not a scratch.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Jesus was and is the greatest restoration specialist of all time.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To strategize a rescue mission irrefutably capable of saving every human being is leagues beyond our ability to comprehend, and enormous beyond any resource we possess to execute. And to embark upon just such a mission fully knowing that without our death the mission will fall to failure is bravery of the greatest sort imaginable. Yet, that is exactly what Christmas is.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Jesus came to give us life so unimaginably beyond anything that we could ever hope to conceptualize that wonder cannot help but be our constant companion.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Jesus came to give us life without leaving out any of life in the giving.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Great difficult is the dogged bedfellow of great wealth, which always renders great wealth as less than great. Yet, great wealth as bequeathed by God is robustly free of such travails, which always renders it greater than great.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The adult within me would be much wiser to learn from the child within me rather than focus on the demand that the child within me grow up.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Am I a storm-waster? For it is within the fury of the very storms within which I cower that I find resources for my growth that are entirely absent on calmer days.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Undoubtedly, our weariness is not based on the fact that we’re running. Rather, our weariness is all too frequently based on the fact that many of the things that we’re running from are the very things we should be running to.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Due north’ on my compass is largely ‘due’ to the fact that in ‘due’ time I have been ‘unduly’ lax in recalibrating my compass. And I’m apparently ignorant enough to wonder why I’m lost.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I’m chasing the wrong thing, what I’m chasing will end up chasing me. And in the end, I’m less likely to be the one doing the catching.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is the fool who declares ‘I am ascending the summit,’ while he’s toddling around in the ditch.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Although I regularly convince myself otherwise, because I aim at something doesn’t necessarily mean I have a target.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Most journeys are armchair calculations strategically charted in some reclined state that are designed to allow us to embark upon a grand journey without ever leaving the armchair. However, real journeys are absent of furniture.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The barrier to our future is often the very plans that we’ve created to get there.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There are often two sets of goals in life: those that we establish, and those that really matter.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The presence of a path doesn’t necessarily mean the existence of a destination.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am most thankful for what I don’t have, for had my life’s wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God’s treasures.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough