“To ‘give up’ on the idea of ‘giving up’ is the first step in ‘getting up.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sadly, I put my dreams to bed long before they ever had the chance to get tired.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Too often surrender is exhaustion that was teetering on the edge of victory.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.” — 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
“Giving up is the naysayer within us proclaiming that heroes are the stuff of fiction and the thought of us ever being… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The only thing that we should give up on is the idea that we should be giving up.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I can chart my own path. However, I’ve yet to figure out why so many of my paths always seem to lead… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective… — 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
“If there’s a reason why I keep my distance from God it probably has something to do with the fact that the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Because a door slammed shut, we assume that our dreams were slammed shut with it. Yet before we surrender to a closed… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The darkness might hide things really well, but it doesn’t have the power to make them disappear. And when it comes to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I’ve always marveled that geese can feel a call stirring, rise on hardy wings to engage it, and without contemplation, compass or… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Rare are the principles that drive us to stand even when we realize that we will likely perish in the standing. And… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Many times I have walked the road in the solemn hush of a winter’s snowfall. And it seems that the inexpressible peace… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Too often my journey is described as the place that I last fell that I never got up from.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“When we surrender to apathy and expect the world to deliver everything to us, we deliver ourselves to a slow death and… — 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
