Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 4 of 10

151. “The problem with patience is that we are not patient enough to learn it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

152. “Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

153. “Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandiose things that we spend so much of our lives pretending to be, so that we can spend all of our lives being the exceptional person that we were actually created to be.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

154. “God’s genius is as wide as the cosmos, while by comparison our intelligence can find room on the head of a pin.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

155. “We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we’ve crammed into our hearts.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

156. “Whatever I ‘align’’ myself with are the very things that will create a ‘line’ into my future.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

157. “If the light we have is continually engulfed by the darkness in a way that makes the darkness even darker, maybe we should think about getting our light from Someone else before it gets a whole lot darker.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

158. “I am not the sum total of my accomplishments, for no matter how much I exhaust myself acquiring those accomplishments, the sum total of them will always be far too trifling to ever reflect my true value. My value rests in the fact that I am an accomplishment of God so incalculably valuable that He gave up Himself rather than give me up.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

159. “The absence of God in our lives is a result of our absence of reason, for if He is absent it is because we requested it. So, to have an absence of reason that results in the absence of God leaves me absent of both.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

160. “Easter is a marvelous affirmation of the genius of our design, but it is likewise the blunt acknowledgement that left to its own devices, the genius of our design will result in the destruction of our lives.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

161. “To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

162. “The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely must not do is to blink first.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

163. “Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I’ve recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of those things, and a revitalized commitment to live the rest of my life never doing either of them again.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

164. “Do not confuse stubbornness with tenacity, for the former is blind to reason while the latter has no reason to be blind.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

165. “With God, what’s possible will always be infinitely greater than what we believe to be probable. And we can be thankful that such a reality means that where we see a wall, God wishes to unveil a horizon.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

166. “The sacrifice ‘of’ self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice ‘for’ self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

167. “Every wall that I build to lock the world out is yet another wall that I’ve built that locks me in. And in the most heinous kind of imprisonment imaginable, I find that I have become both warden and inmate.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

168. “Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things ‘now’ or wait until ’then.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

169. “Truth even in the most whispered tones will always roar.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

170. “The length of the fall is dictated by how far we had climbed. The outcome of the fall is dictated by whether we’re holding on to that which we’re climbing, or we’re letting God hold onto us.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

171. “Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

172. “The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

173. “One of a mother’s greatest gifts is to teach her child that to grow is not to timidly sit on some safe shore at water’s edge and clumsily grab whatever happens to float by. Rather, it is to deliberately step into waters both calm and turbulent in order to wrestle great things to shore. And that lesson can be best taught by a mother who stands before her child dripping wet.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

174. “The best way to see majesty is to strip away everything that pretends to be majestic so that which is fake wholly collapses in the face of that which is majestic. And God in a manger is likely the most remarkable example we have of such a monumental truth.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

175. “There is no space where God is not. Yet, I can eliminate Him from the space which is me. And if He has granted me that kind of power, I should probably be far too scared to ever use it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

176. “We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

177. “When we surrender to apathy and expect the world to deliver everything to us, we deliver ourselves to a slow death and we sacrifice the best of our potential to the worst of our decisions.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

178. “The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

179. “Fear is a lethal killer of dreams, the greatest cancer that has beset passion, and a ruthless thief of lives stolen and buried in the decay of lives squandered. Yet the greatest tragedy of all is that the fear that destroys us is rarely the monster it pretends to be, nor does it possess anything close to the power that we grant it. Therefore, it is only a killer, a cancer and a thief because we empower it to be so.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

180. “To live a fantasy is to avoid a life.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

181. “I would rather make the wrong decision and correct it, rather than make no decision which leaves me nothing to correct.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

182. “The only reason I can’t jump in and engage life is that I’ve told myself I can’t. Yet I can’t helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could?”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

183. “It is autumn on tip-toe that silently walks the hills and treads the forested expanses, gracing in each step a billion leaves in a chorus of colors so brilliantly ingenious that a thousand museums or more could not hold the artistry because a thousand artists or more will never possess the talent to produce what autumn effortlessly creates.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

184. “I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

185. “Our agenda is the lens through which we view the world that is in reality a blindfold through which we miss the world.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

186. “The Christmas story is penmanship of the most brilliant sort, where God crafted a beginning that would never be subject to an ending.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

187. “Despite my incessant desperation, I simply cannot paint the perfect picture within which I would wish to live out my life. And because I cannot, God picked up the brush of love, positioned the canvas of history and painted a manger.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

188. “Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in the eyes of God we are worthy of a miracle.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

189. “There’s that old saying about ‘stirring the pot.’ And I think that more times than not, we’d be wise just to make soup.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

190. “To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

191. “I love sunrises and sunsets. But what I really love is the space that I have in-between them to do something incredible.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

192. “Have I not yet discovered that the ashes of today enrich the soil of tomorrow?”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

193. “True heroes know that the most heroic thing about being a hero is not letting anyone else know that you are one.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

194. “A sunset is the end of a day now passed. Yet, for some reason we get caught in the reality of the descending dark verses the anticipation of a rising dawn.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

195. “Might I wish to be all that I can be and not fall victim to all that I fear to be.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

196. “If I put others first, I will never find myself being last.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

197. “The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

198. “Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

199. “Sacrifice is not setting oneself up to die. It is liberating oneself to live.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

200. “When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough