Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it’s louder.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Although we may face untold numbers that by their sheer mass appear to render us as little more than a speck in the face of them, a single person standing with God amidst any mass will always be an indomitable majority.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Being our best is asking how can we take ourselves to the precipice of our own limits in any and every situation?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If Christmas is a universally comprehensive and keenly clandestine rescue mission strategically crafted by God Himself eons before the rescue was necessary, it would naturally follow that if it is doomed to anything, it is doomed to incontestable success.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Maybe the greatest hope of Christmas is that what it purports to be is exactly what it is.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In the midst of our worried searching we recklessly abandon the treasures that life has bestowed upon us in the mad hunt for that which we wish to bestow upon ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Every life is a canvas and every interaction is a brush, therefore we’d be wise to consider how we handle the paint.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The wisdom to be on the throne of one’s life must surpass the wisdom of the one being ruled, otherwise I will squander the whole of my life in the most appalling ways. By virtue of that reality, I would be wise to get out of the chair and invite God to have a seat.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Commitment is a promise to a cause. Being non-committal is a promise to catastrophe.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I constantly pack my pockets full of worthless trinkets, and in such misguided gorging I leave my heart empty and my soul emaciated because I have forgotten everything but trinkets.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We recklessly attempt to disguise our ‘greed’ by dressing it in the garb of other nobler ideals such as ‘rights’ and ‘privileges.’ Yet, if we dare dress ‘greed’ in an authentic sense of thankfulness, greed will suffocate within the folds of that very clothing.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To destroy that which seeks to destroy me, God invites me to stand against it until it stands down and then falls down.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To ‘stop and smell the roses’ we must first believe that there’s a rose garden out there somewhere. And in this jaded world of ours, the refusal to believe in gardens leaves most of us ref of roses.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Although it would lead me to believe otherwise, fear has little interest in intimidating me. Rather, it much prefers to enslave me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Maybe we should remember that logic constructs a box that is far too small for wonder to take up residence in. Therefore, the crucial question is, ‘Will we choose to live there if wonder cannot?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is a deep dryness of the soul and all of the recalcitrant contrivances of man to quench his own thirst will bring not a single drop of moisture to those parched places, for God and God alone holds the water that satiates the soul.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Why is it that crisis pushes me to my own devices when those devices are frequently the very things that produced my crisis in the first place?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I’m surprised at where I’m at, it’s probably because I’m not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I’ve listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Be confidently assured that any ‘gods’ that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If your portfolio is made up of the investments that you have made in the lives of people, you will have amassed a wealth so vast that all the portfolios that will ever float the trading floor on Wall Street would, by comparison, be reckoned as nothing. And if by chance we dared to live by this truth, we would in fact would love like none other.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If your portfolio is made up of the investments that you have made in the lives of people, you will have amassed a wealth so vast that all the portfolios that will ever float the trading floor on Wall Street would, by comparison, be reckoned as nothing. And if by chance we dared to live by this truth, we would in fact love like none other.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Have we ever thought to consider that we create values that ‘feel’ right because they serve our current agendas, which is an infinitely different thing from values that ‘are’ right because they serve an eternal agenda?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes chaos is the very thing that deliberately shakes up our neatly ordered world’s in order to get us out of the neatly ordered ruts that have kept us stuck.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If there is any solace to be found in the carnage of September 11th, may I find it in understanding that the potential to do great good can handily rival the tendency to carry out great evil. And out of that understanding may I commit in my own life to make certain that in such a critical rivalry I will ensure that towers will never fall because of me, but people will be raised up due to me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Minutes remain the same length whether they are held against the span of years or minutes themselves. Yet, when minutes are held against themselves, they seem so terribly brief. Therefore, we’d be wise to celebrate life before minutes are all that’s left.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

What I would be quite wise to remember is that ‘pieces’ are not the end of what was, but the beginning of what is to be.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sure, things die. Yet hard on the heels of every death there comes a birth. And if the life around me is being perpetually refreshed in such a relentless manner, why would I think that the life within me can’t have the same experience.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginning that is on its way, we will live terribly soiled lives.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To blithely discard the spent kernels of something that has ended is to discard the very resources that have painstakingly been harvested from that ending from which a spirited new beginning will be cultivated.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough