Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

I must look at the 'nature' of God, not the 'nature' of the challenge. For the former means everything and the latter means nothing.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fear tells me that while there might be a host of people who wish to stand beside me in times of crisis, the tangled wreckage is sometimes so enormous that the best of their efforts leave them stranded at a great distance. And standing desperately alone surveying the carnage that holds all others a bay, God suddenly taps me on the shoulder, leans over and whispers, 'how about a little demolition?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I cannot be afraid of being afraid. Rather, I need to realize that it is my fear that gives me the energy to wrestle that which I fear into the dirt that is soon to become the road underneath my feet.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The only reason I can’t jump in and engage life is that I’ve told myself I can’t. Yet I can’t helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think that it is infinitely wiser to accept the fact that we’re afraid, for in accepting our fear we are in no way granting it the power to crush us. Rather we are finally empowering ourselves sufficiently so that we can crush it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Why is it that none of the things I construct ever make me feel safe? The answer lies in the fact that safety can’t be created. It can only be found. And the only thing I've found that’s never been created is God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Bravery is not found in getting knocked down. Rather, bravery is found is getting back up knowing that you’re going to get knocked down again.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I often ask to what place I am running, for if I am unable to identify that place it is likely that I am running in a circle of the most circular sort.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The line that we chart into our future is often more a circle that brings us back to our past. And it might be that there is some hidden intent in charting circles in that we can feel like we’re moving when we actually have no intent of doing so.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To fall is not to fail. To fail is to never fall because I never got up in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore, apathy survives solely on lies and can be completely abated by truth.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Is the goal I’ve set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Because I have ‘chosen’ to see something as impossible, there’s a good chance that it’s not.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I’m laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I do not walk into the storm unless I have been called into the storm. For the former is arrogance and the latter is obedience.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I’m perplexed by the fact that I’m constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head I’ve determined that being lost serves a greater purpose than being found.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

However far I’ve come, it’s probably somewhere less than halfway of where I could be if I simply believed in myself.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Once I realize that the tune I’m whistling in my head is the theme that’s driving my heart, I suddenly realize that the most important question I can ask is, “What are the lyrics?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

An idea without sacrifice, regardless of grand it might be, will never be anything more than an idea.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.

~ 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 or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To judge someone is to say that I have the right to define who they are, verses understanding that God has handed me the priceless privilege of discovering who they are.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

With God, anything that stands against you will always be inferior to what resides within you.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You are silent now who once stood on battlefields ravaged by destruction unimaginable, holding in those desperate places the line of freedom for others you would never know, and who would never know you. And being one of those you never knew, I would give all I have to clasp your hand one single time, look into eyes that witnessed the bloodied carnage that results when freedom refuses to bow to chains of any kind, and simply say 'thank you.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Because a door slammed shut, we assume that our dreams were slammed shut with it. Yet before we surrender to a closed door, it might be wise to take a moment and consider the fact that any dream is far too big not to have a couple of back doors.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sadly, I put my dreams to bed long before they ever had the chance to get tired.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am the greatest obstacle to my greatest dreams.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made out of my past, not the elimination of that mess.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Dreams must be chased, for if we wait for them to chase us we will live a life of waiting.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In many instances, the failures of my greatest schemes ultimately lead to the fulfillment of my greatest successes. Therefore, God will allow our most cherished dreams to perish so that we might turn and seek out His most cherished plans.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To even begin to embrace the magnitude of God’s vision, we must first embrace our vision as being nothing more than vision by definition.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Men can dig wells, but they can’t create water.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough