“To refuse the sacrifice of the ascent is to miss the fact that the grandeur of the valley can only be fully… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To ‘stop and smell the roses’ we must first believe that there’s a rose garden out there somewhere. And in this jaded… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Some things must be pursued, or they may in fact pursue us.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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 Copy Share Image
“I’m a kid at heart, and that is the very thing without which I would not have a heart.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The main barrier to our belief that life can be better is our belief that someone else is supposed to do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Life is such that beginnings and endings are neither. For in fact, they perpetually lay the groundwork for the other.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“God will never allow a flood in your life without providing you a boat within which the storm itself is repelled, the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Life is measured by a collection of moments rather than the passing of minutes.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The losses in my life are so immense that I can barely stand and hardly breath. But I must remember that it… — 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
“There is far more to this existence than how men have defined it through the exhibition of their limitations.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“As it peaks over the horizon, does not a sunrise whisper the opportunity to try again. And if the day passes and… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To fight for greater things is the essence of our humanity. Therefore, to fall to the skepticism of those for whom the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Life is so utterly enraptured with beginnings that it can do little else than perpetually create space for them. And those spaces… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Run the race as if everything in existence depends upon it, because everything in your existence does.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants and we can reconstruct a… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To embrace the magnitude of our destiny, we must at times question its existence in order to become convinced of its presence.” — 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
