Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

One of the most terrifying questions of all might be, ‘Will I unleash myself to live before death unleashes me from the ability to be unleashed?’ And in retrospect, maybe it’s not the question that’s terrifying. Maybe what’s terrifying is the answer.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sacrifice is a passion that unleashes everything away from us so that it can be drawn into everyone around us.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

What I do is the truest mirror of who I am.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The roads of life are paved wide and skirt the mountains. And these very roads are choked with a steady stream of pathetically pedantic travelers who in reality have no intent of traveling. And if we are to discover the real travelers, much less join them, we will find them out on precarious paths that defy the roads and scale the mountains.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

God’s decision to reach out in such dramatic fashion as to lay all rightful privilege aside and be born into abject destitution tells us that His passion for us exceeds our desire for Him. And maybe we should commit to evening that up a bit.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In our frenzied attempts to catch up with life, we run right past it. Once we have run past it, what we are in reality attempting to catch is ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores its scraps.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Maybe we don’t ever feel that sweetly untainted and wholly majestic kind of love that takes every longing captive because we are hopelessly entangled in the illogical fear that despite all of love’s grand goodness, it might not be good enough to keep us safe.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

God beckons me to exhilarating adventures that are without number, beyond all conceivable boundaries, and effortlessly eclipse the furthest reaches of my imagination, all while I sit languishing in stifling adventures of my own limited creation.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Mediocrity is ‘purpose’ left to rot in minds ensnared in the deluded rationalization that vision is nothing more than a collection of fanciful dreams constructed by an imaginary God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If left to my own simplistic devices and the sorely scant limits of my abilities, would I not die a death of the blandest sort imaginable? And should I not thank God that He graciously gifted me with an imagination that renders such a death entirely unimaginable?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To lust for something is desire turned selfish and gone mad. To embrace God’s passion is desire turned selfless and gone mindful.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for the assumption of 'entitlement.' And once that happens, I will forfeit the reality of the former which will destroy the assumption of the latter. And in what terribly dark place will that now leave me?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If truth is relative, then it’s cousin is anarchy.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We live with this tortured feeling that we must create that which in reality we have the privilege of finding.

~ 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

No person, collection of people, institution, government or organization of any kind can in any way promise to meet all of my needs for no person, collection of people, institution, government or organization possesses the array of resources necessary to do that. And so, I am left with the reality that either there is a God who can meet all of my needs, or I’ve been stranded in an existence that created me with needs that the existence itself cannot meet.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we might come to the precious realization of how little we’ve actually lived in the first place?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Disappointment focuses on ‘what is not,’ and completely misses the far greater reality of ‘what now is.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear not a reality of my journey.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is the length of the journey that ripens the joy of the outcome.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We have a choice. We can be jaded by what we’ve lost, or joyous over what that thing had accomplished while we had it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap other than the conviction that they believe they do.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate the child within.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The ‘fact’ of my actions frequently collide with the ‘fiction’ of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The problem with the ‘herd’ is that our voice is never ‘heard’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Apathy is giving up when we need to get up.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I pray that I am sufficiently stirred by the rumor of great things to seek the God who created this single thread that I am, and to marvel at a vision magnificent enough to cause this God to weave from this single thread a tapestry most resplendent.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation to stand back up either.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving ‘through’ life without driving ‘in’ life. So, I’ve decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It’s really a rather simple thing to bring balance to my anger. All I need to do is remember that the ‘hand of cards’ that have been dealt to me pale in comparison to the ‘deck of cards’ that I’ve thrown at others.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If safety is my goal, living life is not.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough