“If my prayers have devolved into being nothing more than reciting a list of things that I want, I might as well… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Christian Copy Share Image
“Every life is a canvas and every interaction is a brush, therefore we’d be wise to consider how we handle the paint.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Artist Copy Share Image
“I have been driven to desperation more times than I can count. But it is here that I have been driven to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Contain Copy Share Image
“Prayer is anything but the misled human being attempting self-sooth themselves against the pain that engulfs them. Rather, they are the people… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Battle Copy Share Image
“I think that we must come to the end of ourselves in order to understand that we are part of something much… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Bigger Copy Share Image
“Often, the scripts that we write that foretell our own doom are completely contrary to the scripts that God has written for… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Inspirational-religious 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… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Brave 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 Achieve Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice is to lose something we can see in order to gain something that we can’t. And therein lies the problem. First… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Gain 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 Consequence Copy Share Image
“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 Ascent Copy Share Image
“Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under it’s own weight and we with it. Forgiveness is freedom multiplied against… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Cross Copy Share Image
“I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Barriers 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 Better Copy Share Image
“I can chart my own path. However, I’ve yet to figure out why so many of my paths always seem to lead… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Bible Copy Share Image
“The oddity of our existence is that we are capable of digging holes deeper than we are capable of getting ourselves out… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Choices Copy Share Image
“By far, the most precious gifts are those that I have, for without those I will never be able to obtain those… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Abilities Copy Share Image
“Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Beginning 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
“To hate yourself is to betray yourself in the most unfair but likely most familiar manner possible.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Betray 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
“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
“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
“Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Contrast 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 be fully awake is a choice to face the stark realities that we would much prefer to avoid. And it is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoidance 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
“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
“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
“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 Car 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 Controlling Copy Share Image
“Good relentlessly calls us to accountability, abjectly refusing to hand us free passes for poor choices and unethical decisions.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Accountability Copy Share Image
“Cruel’ or a ‘tool’? For if we see pain as an adversary, we will see nothing but the former and we will… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Adversary Copy Share Image
“Run the race as if everything in existence depends upon it, because everything in your existence does.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Depends Copy Share Image