“Defense mechanisms protect us. Fortresses isolate us. And far too often we begin with the former and end up constructing the latter.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Defense mechanisms Copy Share Image
“An attitude of thankfulness keeps me centered when every attitude other than thankfulness promises me a center that it can’t find.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Attitude Copy Share Image
“I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Battle Copy Share Image
“I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Absence Copy Share Image
“Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Resolving our fear occurs by walking into that which we fear rather than thinking about how we resolve our fears without the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Fear Copy Share Image
“Preemptively interwoven into this ingeniously crafted existence is everything that we need to be everything that we are.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Christianity Copy Share Image
“If I can’t quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that’s killing… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To give myself over in the service of others may mean that I will forfeit everything that I want, but it also… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Christian Copy Share Image
“I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Who you are is too vast to be captured by the reflection of a mirror, classified by the state of your attitude,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Chance 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
“I would suggest that the desire to love is always greater than the passion to hate. It’s simply that love demands vulnerability… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Compromise Copy Share Image
“If an attitude of thankfulness did not free us from that which binds us, either we have not yet cultivated a genuine… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Attitude Copy Share Image
“By the time I emerge from them, I have somehow left in the quiet of the woods all that I thought was… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The size of the giant in front of you will always be determined by the size of the giant within you.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Barriers Copy Share Image
“There is a purpose in our pain that is greater than the pain itself. Therefore, to miss that purpose is the truest… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Christian Copy Share Image
“If you didn’t get a little wet crossing the river you might have crossed it, but you didn’t experience it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“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 Choices Copy Share Image
“If I’m intelligent enough to realize that I need to be determined, that may be all the intelligence that I really need.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Determination 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 Apologetics Copy Share Image
“Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Abuse Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s time to realize that our greatest contributions are not the monuments that we construct, but the lives that we change… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The sign of a good book is that it entertains you. The sign of a great book is that it changes you.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Author Copy Share Image
“Just knowing that God goes with us changes everything about the place that we’re going, as well as the place we were… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To feel helpless is to acknowledge our limitations, but it does not have to be an acceptance of them.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Acceptance Copy Share Image
“If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Belief Copy Share Image
“Don’t bore me with the facts, because once I’m finally forced to face them I will find myself desperately wishing that I… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Bored Copy Share Image
“A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Accuracy Copy Share Image
“Authentic love is deciding to live on a one-way street where all the arrows point down the street and not a single… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Authentic Copy Share Image
“The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Collapse Copy Share Image
“The ‘easy way’ is our laziness trying to find a solution by ‘working hard’ to side-step the problem.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“When our lives are difficult beyond description, we must remember that our God is good beyond explanation.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Bible 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 Book Copy Share Image
“God's love is marvelous and mysterious, and no effort of man - no matter how elegant or purposeful - can explain that.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough God Copy Share Image
“Freedom brings the privilege to make decisions and the need to learn once again how to rightly make them.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Freedom Copy Share Image
“Fear is something akin to catching a mouse in a bear trap. We mistakenly thought that the thing that we were trying… — 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 Day Copy Share Image
