“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
“Failures however, are the stuff of scrutiny. And so we often erect memorials over our failures while our successes drift into the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The only way to achieve a dream worth dreaming is to accept the reality that each victory that we experience along the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sometimes my successes come quickly and at other times they are terribly slow to arrive. It is not my place to determine… — 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
“I am human. Therefore, I will fail you. God is not and will not.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“You were not made to tend to the grave of your mistakes because God removed the coffin and backfilled the hole.” — 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
“There are precious lessons deep in the stench of failure and the filth of selfish choices.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The difference between ‘wanting’ something and ‘having’ something is ‘doing’ something.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“With God, the setbacks of today are the precise ingredients that He needs to craft the victories of tomorrow.” — 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
“The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“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
“Failure is a friend if we can see past the face of the foe that we project on it.” — 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
“If I am selfish I might have achieved great things, but achieving great things out of my selfishness is one of the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Failure is not the deterrent for the next try. Rather, it is information that empowers the next step.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The road to success is paved with the hot asphalt of failure.” — 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 Copy Share Image
“The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“However far I’ve come, it’s probably somewhere less than halfway of where I could be if I simply believed in myself.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I have defined victory not by the outcome of any battle, but by the integrity with which I fought the battle.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the greatest victories are neither great nor victories.” — 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
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — 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 Image
“I’m not trying to save you from yourself. I’m trying to help you save yourself from yourself.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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 Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“It’s better to die for what’s right than live for what’s wrong.” — 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 home of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
