“If I’m always ridding today of what I paid forward from yesterday, I need to quit paying forward and begin paying attention.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The way to quit digging holes is to get rid of the shovels and stay away from the dirt.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Right now I am making the choice to live out this day choosing to be intentional about not being unintentional.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It’s better to die for what’s right than live for what’s wrong.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I wonder how often I ended up on the short-end of the stick because I was climbing the wrong tree.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I’d just quit making ropes I’d no longer be at the end of one.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Most of the mines in the minefields of our life were planted by the choices that we should have never made while… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“So, there’s this hornet’s nest. And there’s this long stick. And then there’s me. How I walk away from all of this… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Every decision will build a bridge or a barrier. Therefore, what stands in front of you at this moment illustrates the decisions… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Although I too often see myself as powerless, the fact is the New Year is what I make it. And whatever I… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“What I allow into my head finds its way to my heart, which is a porthole to my soul. Therefore, I might… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Why am I always lost in the woods,” I yell at the top of my voice! And if I choose to settle… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The oddity of our existence is that we are capable of digging holes deeper than we are capable of getting ourselves out… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Ethics are the things that say, 'Don’t stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It’s okay because we’ve shut off… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“A gun safety instructor once told me that if you pull the trigger you’re going to create a hole somewhere. So, in… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“God’s absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Too often the target is determined by whatever it was that we happened to have hit.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it’s less about making the right decision and more about not making the wrong one.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is my hope that I will live today in a way that every tomorrow will become a great yesterday.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“When it comes to ‘poking the bear,’ the length of my stick will never be long enough to outrun the consequences of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“We can spend our lives decrying the injustices that befall us, or we can respond to the far greater cry that calls… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“What I see behind me is what I’m going to create in front of me. Therefore, I might want to take a… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To think that you don’t have a choice is actually a choice that’s an attempt to relieve you of the guilt of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Has it not ‘dawned’ on us that many of the things that we incessantly blame others for are actually things that our… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Quite often, the consequence of doing nothing is greater than the consequence of actually having done something and having done it wrong.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if perchance I choose to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Running’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I would rather have the approval of God over the accolades of men. For while men might 'lift' me up, God is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I can gaze into the infinity of a nighttime sky, or I can stare at my phone. And the insanity of it… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Death is a reality that calls the rest of life and all of our assorted strivings into sharp relief.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“I’m not trying to save you from yourself. I’m trying to help you save yourself from yourself.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the home of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“Thankfulness acknowledges that we can’t own anything, but we can experience everything. And just knowing that makes me thankful.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“Do not be fooled. Passive prayers hastily tossed out as some second-thought appeasement at those junctures when life’s more pressing duties benevolently grant us… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“Darkness is the absence of light. Therefore, darkness is always fleeing from where light is and scurrying off to where it is not. So… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“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… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
