“I spend my day in one of three fundamental positions: sitting down, laying down or standing up. And if I’m at all… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to say that I believe in God. Rather, I want to live out my life like I believe in… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“A puzzle with all of the difficult pieces discarded is not about the loss of the puzzle. Much like life, it is… — 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
“I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Here’s the way to destroy your life in sixty seconds or less; convince yourself that something is ‘right’ simply because you want… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“God will never allow a flood in your life without providing you a boat within which the storm itself is repelled, the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To fight for greater things is the essence of our humanity. Therefore, to fall to the skepticism of those for whom the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“In the midst of our worried searching we recklessly abandon the treasures that life has bestowed upon us in the mad hunt… — 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 truth be told, life is so remarkably rich that we will always owe life a debt that we have no means… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To refuse the sacrifice of the ascent is to miss the fact that the grandeur of the valley can only be fully… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Despite how painful it might have been, the chapter that we wrote today is never the conclusion that we are forced to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“In making the life of another better, you will have done the same for yourself in ways that are frequently hidden by… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Even if you were were given the privilege to live twice, you would never repeat the same day twice. And if you… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Despite my incessant desperation, I simply cannot paint the perfect picture within which I would wish to live out my life. And… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If the journey I am on is of my terribly tedious design, dead ends will likely be my lot. If the journey… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If you have not been driven to the end of yourself at some point in your life, it is likely that you… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“My life is diminished for the absence of great things. Yet they are in reality not absent at all. Rather I am… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“We force-fit our tiny rubrics over this immense existence of ours until we’ve confused the box we’ve created for the existence we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Life is much like a river. I can’t determine where the river comes from or where it’s flowing to. But I can… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Leadership is simple. It’s laying down one’s life on behalf of another for no other reason than such an action represents what… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what… — 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
“Minutes remain the same length whether they are held against the span of years or minutes themselves. Yet, when minutes are held… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough… — 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
“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
“Being thankful for something instantly grants that thing a depth it would not have had were I not thankful for it. And… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Life is so utterly enraptured with beginnings that it can do little else than perpetually create space for them. And those spaces… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“There is no story (regardless of how dark it might be) that does not contain within its pages a handful of words… — 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
