Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The burdens I carry on my back are in direct correlation to the weight of my ego.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Often we don’t see the majesty of God’s design because we’re caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The problem that I think I have with God is often not a problem at all. Rather, it is most frequently a tired misperception where I have made God what I need Him to be in order to justify my rejection of Him.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn’t have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Faith revels in the liberating fact that only a terribly miniscule part of life lies within the constricted confines of my reach, and that I am graciously invited out to live in a place beyond my grasp.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of them, they are entirely counterfeit and I have been robbed blind by the work of my own hands.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The only things I truly keep are those things that I give away.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I have in that question revealed the need to ‘return’ that question to wherever I found it and have the word ‘return’ edited out of it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron’s I can think of.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Rhetoric can be easily recognized for it is delightfully sweet sounding but it is utterly void of sacrifice, which means it is utterly void of substance. Christmas is irrefutable evidence that God never engages in rhetoric.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I have forfeited the ability to wonder so as not to offend the tenets of the culture, and if I have sacrificed warm dreams on the cold altar of conformity, it is likely because I have somewhere traded the marvel of the infinite for the malaise of the finite.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we not only survive to live another day, but we thrive to celebrate another day.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To fill the fathomless caverns of my thirsty soul I must work entirely contrary to impulses of my own humanity, for it is in emptying myself at the very point where I am most empty that I fill myself.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I give with the motive to get, regardless of the degree to which that motive besets me, I will walk away impoverished and I will leave those to whom I have given just as impoverished as I have now found myself.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire for comfort is in reality the demand that I put myself first, and there is nothing of sacrifice in that.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am thankful that in the giving we receive, and what we receive is the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we give is always bigger once we’ve given it away.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am thankful that to be attuned to the needs of another attunes us to the world, and that if I stay attuned only to my needs I will always be a stranger to the world.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am thankful that sacrifice is non-negotiable, and that counting the cost in giving to another is foolishly assuming that we can put a price on sacrifice.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and blessed by God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In God’s vocabulary, ‘lost’ is an unnecessary adjective that is easily erased by the adjective ‘found’ if we would simply be brave enough to hand Him the eraser.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t put me any place else.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is the state of the heart within us that determines the nature of the triggers we will pull outside of us.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To be found is to be exposed. No wonder so many of us are still lost.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If in fact it’s not too late to realize that something’s ‘too late’, then there’s a good chance that it’s not.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Being lost without grasping the rather obvious fact that we are lost is by far the best guarantee we have that we’re going to stay lost.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Can anything be called an achievement if it does not simultaneously enhance the life of someone other than the one who has done the achieving?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I suppose that one of my greatest problem lays in the fact that I have assumed a blessing to be something that is mine for the taking, verses being something that by sheer exposure to it takes me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To savor the simple privilege that every day I have a sunrise to bathe in, a storehouse of opportunities to romp through, the thick wrap of relationships to keep me warm, a God who meticulously tends to every detail round about me, and it all costs me not a dime. What madness would keep me from being eternally thankful for all that?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I would be quite wise to realize that I will never craft a solution that will be the ‘end-all,’ and that God’s ability to craft perfect solutions never ends ‘at-all.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Uncommon solutions can always overcome problems of the most common or uncommon kind if I am sufficiently committed to overcoming them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When we actually refer to God’s blueprint, we gladly work in fascinated conjunction with it, suddenly realizing that any other action outside of that blueprint is foolhardiness and lunacy of the worst sort.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough