“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 Arrogance Copy Share Image
“Sometimes things that appear completely irreconcilable and mutually exclusive serve a shared purpose that could not be achieved except through their contradiction.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Conflict Copy Share Image
“When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Books Copy Share Image
“Our faith may be big enough to elicit a miracle, but our faith is seldom large enough to embrace it once it… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Faith Copy Share Image
“We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too… — 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 Alone 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 Choices Copy Share Image
“True greatness does not flaunt itself in long displays. Rather, it comes in the briefest moments to quickly appear and then submerge… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Events Copy Share Image
“We are notorious for ‘running’ around self-righteously declaring our rights to this and to that. But if we were to reflect upon… — Craig D. Lounsbrough America 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 Choice 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
“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 Abandonment Copy Share Image
“Tragedy descends, and in the carnage our enraged cynicism screams ‘If there was a God, He would not have allowed this!’ And… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Christian 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 live locked in the prison of my negative attitude. And despite the impenetrable walls that loom above me and about me,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Freedom Copy Share Image
“To be fully awake is a choice to face the stark realities that we would much prefer to avoid. And it is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Choice Copy Share Image
“To overestimate myself is to make myself my own god. To underestimate myself is to make myself my own demon. And the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Curse Copy Share Image
“If we were to actually walk a mile in the other person’s shoes, there’s a good chance that we’d end up opting… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Barefoot Copy Share Image
“As an action, deciding to sacrifice oneself is nothing more than deciding to restore who we are by turning against what we’ve… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Action Copy Share Image
“Intelligence without wisdom is a like a car without a steering wheel. You can drive it as long as you don’t consider… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I want what I want! And I want to find what I want in the exact place, at exact time that I… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Easter Copy Share Image
“To hate yourself is to betray yourself in the most unfair but likely most familiar manner possible.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If you have a hole within you, trying filling the hole in someone else. If you do, in the end there will… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Giving Copy Share Image
“The best way to find everything that you’re ‘not’ looking for is to head out on some search without having any idea… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Discovery Copy Share Image
“There might be some brilliant intentionality in it all, that holiness was created to stand in mankind's filth to lift mankind out… — Craig D. Lounsbrough God Copy Share Image
“Abundance is grasped by infusing our souls with the intoxicatingly liberating fact that life is a privilege, not a right.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Abundance Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Talking about doing great things and not actually doing them makes a mockery of great things and a fool of the person… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Daring Copy Share Image
“Everything that I have becomes invisible in my search for everything that I don’t have. And when that happens, what I don’t… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Appreciation 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 Absence Copy Share Image
“Much like people, the seed always contained the tree. It just needed water and soil to release it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Abilities 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
“Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“No matter the height of them, faith takes the mountains that stand in front of us and makes them the road that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Barriers Copy Share Image
“We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“A person is not measured by their accomplishments. Neither are they measured by their ability to accomplish. In fact, it’s not about… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Accomplishments Copy Share Image
“To be a person of principle is to accept the reality that their stance will never cease to draw the fire of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
