Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To enjoy beauty in the company of myself is to experience beauty bound by the limits of the sole person that I am. But, to experience beauty in the company of God is to experience beauty bound by the limits of Who God is, which is to experience beauty without limits.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fear says that what God has called me to is blatantly impossible. Selfishness says that the cost is unacceptably prohibitive. My humanity harbors other lesser agendas that seduce me to my own death. And I would be wise to believe none of it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we’ve crammed into our hearts.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God’s majesty.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Has it not ‘dawned’ on us that many of the things that we incessantly blame others for are actually things that our actions originally set in motion? Or, are we too weak to experience a ‘dawning’ of that sort?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Oh yes, I am frequently driven to an enraged frenzy by the blatantly crass actions of others. But to be painfully honest, that anger is much less driven by the reality of their actions and far more fueled by the realization that everything I am is everything that I hate in them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Love that is fueled solely by feelings will suddenly find itself out of gas on a long road with no gas stations.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Easter is a time where we are reminded that conclusions in man's mind are beginnings in God's plan.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To love those who hate us is to refuse to borrow their hatred.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Hate feeds on itself, while love will always find itself fed.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The love hidden within is always greater than the hate displayed without.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature; that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Greatness demands that I understand that I am not nearly as big as I thought myself to be, but that I am capable of becoming far bigger than I ever imagined myself to be.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We want greatness, but we prefer it tamed and on a leash short enough for us to control it, yet long enough to allow it to retain some remote yet diminished flavor of greatness.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I want to stand on the belief that great things are the product of ordinary people who are made great when they stand.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Truth speaks for itself if we’d just let it speak.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When I’m at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be ‘how do I get out of this hole?’ In reality, the main question might be ‘how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it in indelible ink.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant or just plain stupid?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Maybe it’s a whole lot less about focusing on the fact that we’re all victims and a whole lot more about the changing the fact that we’re all careless, as that is what victimized all of us in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

At the very point that I’ve taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I’ve cultivated quite a cemetery.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I ‘see’ is but a single thread and solitary shard of what ‘is’, for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can’t speak for itself, it’s not truth.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I assume the ‘truth’ to be negotiable based on whether or not it serves my agenda, then my agenda has become my ‘truth.’ And the ‘truth’ of the matter is, when I do this I’ve chosen to take a treacherous path through some very deep woods where neither path nor woods exist.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A lie is my attempt to tamper with the truth so that I need not face the truth. Yet as shrewd as I think myself to be, I would be wise to understand that God designed truth as ultimately tamper-proof.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I simply can’t look into the heavens on a crisp starry night and somehow bring myself to believe that the gaping expanse that engulfs the whole of me is the product of chance happenstance. And neither can I believe that the gaping expanse that rests within me is anything less.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you think you can stand to know what you’re made of, try kneeling before God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I’m touching, so I’d better start paying attention to what I’m touching.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Love is a perpetual journey that is extraordinary because it will never find itself terminated by a destination.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough