Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If we’re missing life it’s probably because we’re expecting it to reveal itself to us, rather than realizing that life is revealed by us looking for it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The worst denial of all is being in denial that we’re in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that’s not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Maybe we ought to consider that sometimes the most destructive outcomes in our lives are the ones that we’ve created.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We can fill our lives with ‘stuff,’ but as we do we’re concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that ‘stuff.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We’ve yet to comprehend the impervious reality that to gain ‘life’ we have to do the most scandalous thing imaginable, and that is to work ‘against’ the whole of our humanity and give everything away. And yet to give everything away is to work ‘with’ the whole of God’s character.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really ‘lived’ a day in our lives.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we’re going to survive life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To let something go is to participate in a much greater dance that we call life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it’s about working to live right.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to live as if this thing we call life is filled with nothing but nothing.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It would be wise to define ‘living’ as walking in the fullest expression of who I am, verses wallowing in the confines of who I’m not.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The art of living is to rise above lesser things so that we can truly enjoy great things. And the message of Christmas is the greatest of all things.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To ‘live’ is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It’s not that I’ve ‘faked my own death’ as the saying goes. Maybe it’s that I’ve ‘faked my own life,’ and in doing so I’ve yet to realize how dead I really am.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Doing life without God is not doing life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When will I realize that without God my world is draped in shadows between which there is not a single ray of light? And when will I recognize that with God, my world is deluged in light between which there is not a single thread of darkness?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To take this one shot at life and live it with God is to take this one shot and have it reverberate across and around my world as if it were a million shots and more.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Jesus came to give us life to the very edges of life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To maximize our lives we think that we should get up and join in the race. Yet, we rarely consider that maybe it’s less about joining a race and more about actually creating one.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When the world does its level best to devalue me in ways that are nothing short of brutal, all it does is evidence my value. For why would it expend such massive amounts of energy attempting to destroy something that’s not there?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

With God, a mountain is only a road waiting to happen.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In reality, is being sedentary a choice to run from our calling by not running after it?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I have found my journey to be a maddening tangle of wandering ‘rabbit-trails,’ a labyrinth of incessantly circular passages to nowhere and back, and a plethora of assorted ‘dead-ends’ fraudulently disguised as paths of great promise, it can only be because I have mindlessly exchanged God’s compass for mine. Therefore, it would appear that another exchange might be in order.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To say that my existence is entirely inconsequential is to utterly ignore the amazing reality that life is a masterful story penned by a brilliant God who wrote me into the story in such a way that my absence would literally diminish the whole of the story.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We can breathe in the sweet scent of a tepid summer’s meadow after the kiss of a warm rain, and in the very same moment we can stand utterly breathless underneath the expanse of untold galaxies that breech the very edges of the universe itself. Such are the privileges we enjoy because of God’s unimaginable imagination.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If we’ve somehow become convinced that the script we followed ‘yesterday’ can’t be edited, it will be incredibly difficult to tell the difference between ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The road from ‘here’ to ‘there’ is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Whatever I ‘align’’ myself with are the very things that will create a ‘line’ into my future.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The present is too often squandered grieving the past or fearing the future, which makes the present nothing more than a cheap facsimile of what was or what will be instead of what it could be.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Eons ago, the creative genius of God foresaw that it would take the shattered pieces of my ‘yesterday’ to construct the sturdy portal to my ‘tomorrow.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough