Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Heaven shows up all the time. But we plan our time so that we show up in other places.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Blindness is a choice born of fear, nursed by complacency and groomed by comfort. And what I often don’t see in my blindness is that 'choice' evidences the existence of other options.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in whatever fashion we choose. Yet, seldom do we understand the power of the pen and the privilege of the page.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Simply giving something ‘a shot’ is not giving something our ‘best,’ for our best is made up of as many ‘shots’ as it takes in order to be our best.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The true sign of a robust and mature life rests in how many times that life has been knocked down, for to be incessantly knocked down and yet find oneself still standing means that someone had the resolve to get up that many times plus one.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It’s not about some principled debate as to whether I should focus on what I have, or on what I don’t have. Rather, it’s about being thankful that I have the privilege to enjoy the former, and the opportunity to contemplate the latter.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It might behoove us to realize that isolation is the absence of all the senseless clutter, and all the incessant racket that would keep God from having ample room to show up and sufficient silence to be heard. Therefore, isolation may actually be the place where we are least isolated.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We want a fresh start only because we didn’t sufficiently care for the last fresh start.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Death reminds us that life is a temporary privilege, not an endless right.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the very places where society mistakenly says life stores its scraps. And I am constantly amazed that in the treasure trove that surrounds me, I stand in the company of so few.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I would much prefer to enlarge your life by giving you the gift of my life, rather than gifting your life to material obesity with frivolous trinkets.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Christmas is a bold act of emboldening sacrifice and the most selfless gift ever granted the rebellious lot that we are.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I am so terribly limited as to view my handicaps as nothing more than lamentable limitations, then I have taken some of my greatest God-given assets and completely handicapped them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to never hoard hoards.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think we need to consider a radical rewrite of any form of patriotism that serves the individual at the expense of the community, as that is nothing more than patriotism to one's own small and solitary cause.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I would entertain the apparently fading idea that patriotism that serves the self is greed dressed in the garments of liberty and adorned with the fashion accessories of other associated patriotic notions.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is the restraint of patience that yields the magnificent in life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Oftentimes I think it is far better to listen for an answer, rather than talk out of an effort to create one.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my ‘timetable’ is too often a ‘table’ with two legs that won’t stand up no matter how much ‘time’ I give it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Where am I?” you ask. Where you are is where the things you’ve denied worshipping have taken you.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line,’ and we showed up with an eraser?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them and therefore breaking ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough