Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

The reason my life has wandered to nowhere is likely due to the fact that the focus of the moment has dictated the destination of my life, when the destination of my life should have been dictating the focus of the moment.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunted to stupidity and calling begging at the feet of cowardice.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Will I someday pass into history having passed by God and therefore forfeited the opportunity to change my world and reap the blessing of being able to do so because I saw myself as inadequate to achieve either? And how long will it take me to realize that if I doggedly refuse to pass by God, my inadequacy is instantly irrelevant and I have in actuality begun to achieve these very things.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Purpose declares that the trajectory of my existence and the course of human history were intentionally set to collide at this precise moment in time because what I have to offer human history is desperately needed at this precise time.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I say that my value is based on my accomplishments. Christmas is God saying that I am His accomplishment and that will forever be enough.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Whatever the depth of our darkness, God navigated it eons before it was dark. And whatever the duration of our nights, God was there long before it ever turned to night. Therefore, despite our frequent feelings to the contrary, there is no place we might be where God was not lovingly waiting for us an eternity before we got there.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Failure is not the deterrent for the next try. Rather, it is information that empowers the next step.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Failure is a friend if we can see past the face of the foe that we project on it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Failure is blessing wrapped in the clothing of curse.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen. And so, to rid myself of the latter is to reduce my concern about the former, which means I just unleashed my life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would never do to understand that I’m not as wonderful as I thought I was.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’. And while it’s ‘right’ to admit this to myself, it isn’t ‘easy.’ So, which choice am I going to make this time?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Discouragement is the cancer of great things.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow that yesterday would have killed had I had my way.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If those who cause destruction have come to be ‘newsworthy’, and those who heal the devastation of that destruction have come to be less than ‘noteworthy’, has our thirst to be entertained become the truly destructive thing?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

God is able to fix that which is broken so that what stands repaired is immeasurably greater than that which stood before it needed repair. Therefore, the most staggering brokenness conceivable is in reality the greatest opportunity imaginable.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Contradictions are the impossible chasms that create forever separations. God is the forever bridge that creates impossible reunions.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts of all is to have ‘nothing’ so that I can finally learn how to appreciate ‘everything’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Greed is the fast-track to poverty.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To be blessed and yet permit gluttony to blind me to the blessings is to banish myself to a life of unrelenting poverty even though I might be utterly engulfed in the embrace of a million marvelous blessings.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we’re on a grand adventure when we’ve completely forgotten what an adventure is.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

My rather arrogant attitude deludes me into believing that my ability to understand something is the criteria for its legitimacy. And if there’s one thing in my life that I don’t understand yet I allow to be legitimate, thinking this way would most certainly be it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If we limit love to being nothing more than a feeling, we have no real feeling for what love is.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Only God understands how incredibly far we’ve fallen, and only God understands how incredibly far we can rise. And only we can determine if we’re going to wallow in the mediocrity that is born of the refusal to understand either.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough