“I’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is my refusal to think outside the box of my fears.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I want to spend my life unpacking my life, why am I always collecting boxes?” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The man who waits to know everything is the man who never does anything.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The size of any obstacle is measured by the yardstick of our fear.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely… — 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
“My life is too often driven by the fear of the next moment verses focusing on the privilege that I have the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
“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
“The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The architect of the walls around me is the fear within me. And if I have foolishly granted this architect full license… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I cannot be afraid of being afraid. Rather, I need to realize that it is my fear that gives me the energy… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Darkness is the absence of light. Therefore, darkness is always fleeing from where light is and scurrying off to where it is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“More often than not, the thing we fear is less than half the size of the fear it creates.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The preparation for something worse is typically the very thing that makes it exactly that.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go… — 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 we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The strategy of fear is to convince us that we are underestimating it so that we will fall prey to the paralysis… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is not the presence of fear that bothers me. Rather, it is the cowardice within me that refuses to face the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Our vision is narrowed by the fear of what we might see if we dare to look, when what we should fear… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“What is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.” — 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
