Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

Fear left unrestrained always leaves us running ‘from’ something. Fear harnessed compels us to run ‘to’ something. And fear denied leaves us running in circles.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The more we construct lives that prioritize safety, the bigger the prison we construct around ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

What would behoove me to instantly declare God not to be God unless He followed my script in some tediously exacting manner? I must confess that I am less likely to believe that it’s a matter of some narcissistic demand that I freely pen my own script. Rather, I think it’s fear that I’m too inadequate to follow God’s.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We think that boxes take everything that’s bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Self-preservation is to hunker down in the suffocating confines of this infinitesimally tiny existence that I define as ‘me,’ instead of letting ‘me’ run through the infinitely massive expanse of everything that is not me. And if the beast of self-preservation does not permit such freedoms, I will preserve myself to my own death.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am amazed that without any hesitation whatsoever I can completely believe myself to be on a grand journey of massive vistas and bold ascents, only to find that they are nothing more than a figment of a frightened imagination that needed a journey but could not admit to the fear of actually taking one.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I might define a ‘journey’ as something that life itself calls me to. And I might then define a ‘trip’ as something I create to avoid a journey by mimicking a journey. And while fear is most certainly part and parcel of both, the latter is emboldened by fear while the former surrenders to it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It’s not about the elimination of fear. Rather it’s about the elimination of the feeling that the elimination of fear is necessary before we take the next step.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The hand of God is wonderfully evident at those times when He pens stories whose lines we ourselves are far too fearful to pen or whose imaginations are far too limited to envision. And I would unashamedly suggest that the Christmas story is that very story.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. The beauty of Christmas is that God steps over precipices.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

What excites us the most or likewise scares us the most is when something is exactly what it says it is. And when it comes to Christmas, we’re going to end up finding ourselves on one side of that line or the other.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I’ve really been doing is running?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fear is often bred of an imagination that couldn’t let something be what it actually was.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fear is a lethal killer of dreams, the greatest cancer that has beset passion, and a ruthless thief of lives stolen and buried in the decay of lives squandered. Yet the greatest tragedy of all is that the fear that destroys us is rarely the monster it pretends to be, nor does it possess anything close to the power that we grant it. Therefore, it is only a killer, a cancer and a thief because we empower it to be so.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are readily available to everyone else but me? What really leads me to believe such an atrocious lie is that I don’t believe in myself sufficiently to engage those opportunities in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, and that alone is frightening. But what I’ve failed to consider is that I have to expend so much of myself living for myself that in the end I’m really left with very little of myself, and that is unimaginably frightening.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fate’ and ‘coincidence’ are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a ‘greater purpose’, because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a ‘Greater Being’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And it may be that this dreaded fear is the single thing that keeps us an arm’s length from God, and forever a single step away from His blessings.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I much prefer not to fall, unless of course I am falling into the hands of God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Either we are running ‘from’ what we fear or running ‘to’ what we fear. The former is a choice controlled by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Either we are running ‘from’ what we fear, or running ‘to’ what we fear. The former is a choice driven by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I’ll die with should I never use it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

God’s eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that’s the case, we should get busy returning them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that where I get knocked down is all about where life begins, and has nothing to do with where it ends.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Loss is an invitation to a journey of unparalleled growth, yet we seldom RSVP the invitation.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we’ve done with it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough