“The strategy of fear is to convince us that we are underestimating it so that we will fall prey to the paralysis… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Don’t fear what other people can do. Fear most what you could have done, but didn’t.” — 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
“We can be seized with panic of the fall, or inspired by the potential that lies within the fall.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The preparation for something worse is typically the very thing that makes it exactly that.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“More often than not, the thing we fear is less than half the size of the fear it creates.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we prefer not deciding because it relieves us of the fear of making the wrong decision. But how many times is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I cannot be afraid of being afraid. Rather, I need to realize that it is my fear that gives me the energy… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“One man lives out his life beating his fears into submission, while another lives out his life letting his fears beat him… — 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
“Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Our roads are most often a tawdry detour we have chosen because the press of pain or the push of greed drove… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The hallmark of all great journeys is the decision to walk directly into that which we would otherwise seek to escape.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“What I’ve deemed as impossible is more the fiction I’ve created to avoid the failure I fear.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To hide is our insecurities telling God that what we fear is bigger than Who He is. And in this case, maybe… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“What is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“A lie is a forgery of a truth that is too big to embrace because of a prejudice that we’re too afraid… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Bravery is not the absence of fear, for then I doubt that anyone would be truly brave. Rather, it is passion clothed… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Once we allow our brokenness to become our norm it no longer appears broken, which is the most broken kind of brokenness.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Too often we make it more about what stands before us, and we miss all that stands within us.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“This week God clearly told me to get out of my boxes. And I rather quickly discovered that trading my current box… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the evidence of everything that I wish were not evidence points me to all of the things that I’ve spent my… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If you’re going to give your imagination legs and allow it to run, leave your leash at home and do the same… — 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
