Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

Being a mother is not about ‘birthing a child into the world.’ Rather, it is about repeatedly ‘birthing into the child’ a steady sense of their inestimable worth, a prized understanding of their authentic self, a conviction that the impossible is largely the stuff of myth, and an utterly unwavering belief that cold actions of men never represent the warm heart of God. It is the relentless act of birthing these things into the innermost soul of a thirsty child that makes a woman a mother.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Being a mother is not about ‘birthing a child into the world.’ Rather, it is about repeatedly ‘birthing into the child’ a steady sense of their inestimable worth, a prized understanding of their authentic self, a conviction that the impossible is largely the stuff of myth, and an utterly unwavering belief that the cold actions of men never represent the warm heart of God. It is the relentless act of birthing these things into the innermost soul of a thirsty child that makes a woman a mother.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

My sin murdered Him. And out of this self-loathing shame borne of the understanding that I could perpetrate such a heinous act, I am barely able to raise my head sufficiently to ask what crazed insanity would prompt Jesus to walk out of an empty tomb for the single purpose of pursuing a decaying soul that murdered Him? And I would be wise to consider that the question itself is asked only because I have yet to touch the barest periphery of God’s love despite the fact that because of an empty tomb it stands right in front of me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am thankful that I can be thankful, for if thankfulness did not exist my heart would be irretrievably imprisoned by the crazed twins of acquisition and possession, and my soul would exist as a forever slave to greed.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Let me be strong, for to be anything else is to languish in the abyss of compromise and to descend to places of impoverishment so destitute that they will squelch my soul and crush my heart.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Hope is oxygen to the soul, and God is the oxygen of hope.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Too often there is this sinister greed that pulls at my coattails, subtly whispering in the ear of my soul that it is within my rights to tuck away a few dark trinkets to toy with when the tedium of righteous living gets a bit boring. But God would suggest that I empty my pockets.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am likely to fail if I have determined the cost as too high or my intelligence as too low. Yet, if I think about it, the real failure rests in believing either of these to be true.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Starting over is opportunity informed by failure, which is opportunity made intelligent.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The legacy I leave will be unimaginably enhanced by the legacies I received. Therefore, I must be wise enough to embrace the history of those who have gone before me so that I can shape the future of those who will go ahead of me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It’s not that I can’t remember. It’s that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

More often than not, the foolishness of our humanity drives us to destroy the very things that we need to keep ourselves from destroying ourselves. And because that’s the case, God will never allow us to destroy Christmas.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I’m standing up.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Instinct is all of our humanity being deliberately honest with all of life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

My worth is not based on the ‘work of my hands’ despite how feverishly I might work and how audaciously successful I might be. Rather, my worth is based exclusively on the astonishing fact that I am the ‘work of God’s hands.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that we’ve engaged in ‘right’ living, verses believing that living is a ‘right.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

My soul is utterly frantic for that single place of perfect refuge from which I can clearly see the winds rip and hear the tempest tear, yet despite the ferocity of the tumult I rest in such a sublime peace it is as if neither existed at all. And if I have not yet found such a place, it is because I have not yet found God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Undoubtedly, failure is growth in pain’s disguise.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Failure is information encased in a shell of pain.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I have finally come to realize that it’s being forced to be honest with myself that’s made my pain painful all along.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

For love to eliminate pain is to waste it, for it is love alone that possesses sufficient force to bend pain against everything that would break us.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Although I’ve been thoroughly conditioned by pain to see it otherwise, an ending is nothing more than the backside of a beginning.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it’s a little closer to being perfect.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

An ending is only happening because at some point it was a beginning. And if an ending is dependent upon a beginning, I would be well advised to focus on the miracle of beginnings verses the pain of endings.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is in opposing the world’s lies that we impose truth in our hearts.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For without exception, that is the greatest weapon of all.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Despite how utterly massive they might be, it is never the size of the arsenal nor the strength of the warrior. Rather, it is a heart bent on sacrifice that is the most potent weapon of all.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough