Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 7 of 10

301. “The reason my life has wandered to nowhere is likely due to the fact that the focus of the moment has dictated the destination of my life, when the destination of my life should have been dictating the focus of the moment.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

302. “I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

303. “I can wait for life to shape me in whatever manner it chooses. Or I can shape me to make life whatever I choose.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

304. “More times than I’m willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I’m willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

305. “Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I’m ignoring behind me. Instead, it’s most certain to drop it on top of me.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

306. “Has it not ‘dawned’ on us that many of the things that we incessantly blame others for are actually things that our actions originally set in motion? Or, are we too weak to experience a ‘dawning’ of that sort?”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

307. “Love is a perpetual journey that is extraordinary because it will never find itself terminated by a destination.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

308. “I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

309. “God has hewn out a hidden path more glorious, tantalizing and adventuresome than the path trod by most, and it is a path seen only through the eyes of our wounds, felt solely through the heart of our losses, and singularly traversed by those with a limp in their step.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

310. “If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

311. “Instead of the weight that sinks us, consequences are often the life preserver that saves us.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

312. “Because a door slammed shut, we assume that our dreams were slammed shut with it. Yet before we surrender to a closed door, it might be wise to take a moment and consider the fact that any dream is far too big not to have a couple of back doors.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

313. “We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

314. “The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

315. “You are what you eat.’ And that fact applies infinitely more to your soul than it does your body.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

316. “The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

317. “Legacy is not what will be left of us once we’ve gone through our life. It’s what’s left of us that’s left standing once life’s gone through our life.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

318. “Sometimes we have to pretend that we don’t care in order to protect ourselves from the fact that we do. And the thing that we have to pretend the most is that this actually works.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

319. “The visionless will declare a vision as the pathetic muse of the weak-minded, or some dreamer having fallen victim to the lamentable fiction of their own dreams. And for those with vision, we must remember that it is the criticism of the vision that lends credibility to the fact that it is not only a vision, but a worthy one.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

320. “Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

321. “Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God’s beginning.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

322. “The message of Christmas is a message of hope when all other such messages created by men can do nothing more than be hopeful.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

323. “The world brazenly touts freedom as both the inalienable right and morally liberating justification to mindlessly play in the filth that lies all around me. And the slight bit of sanity that yet remains within me asks, ’what raging madness would prompt me to incessantly wallow in the very things that will eventually swallow me?”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

324. “Whatever the depth of our darkness, God navigated it eons before it was dark. And whatever the duration of our nights, God was there long before it ever turned to night. Therefore, despite our frequent feelings to the contrary, there is no place we might be where God was not lovingly waiting for us an eternity before we got there.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

325. “Wearing camouflage is based on the desire to blend in with an environment that we don’t blend in with. Therefore, if we’re wearing some sort of camouflage every day then we’re probably not happy with ourselves any day.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

326. “Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

327. “Christmas does not invite you to something that happened in history. Rather, Christmas is God inviting you to something that’s already shaping your eternity.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

328. “With God, the setbacks of today are the precise ingredients that He needs to craft the victories of tomorrow.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

329. “Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

330. “Oh that I had the opportunity to rethink so many of my decisions, for the pitfalls into which I have so frequently fallen were often dug with the shovel of those very decisions.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

331. “I see everything outside of me through the lens of everything that is inside of me. Therefore, before I look at the world outside I’d be wise to look at the lens inside.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

332. “If I so much as dare to intimately probe the reflection I see in the mirror, I am filled with the tormenting fear that I might be repulsed. God invites us to boldly probe the reflection in the mirror so that we might be released.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

333. “To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

334. “It’s not about changing the world, although that’s what we seem to rally around. Rather, it’s about changing ourselves for that is the seed from which changing the world sprouts.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

335. “Jesus came to give us life so unimaginably beyond anything that we could ever hope to conceptualize that wonder cannot help but be our constant companion.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

336. “I watched a squirrel fall from a rather high branch. Upon hitting the ground, he bounced slightly, paused, shook himself vigorously and then immediately scampered back up to the very same place on the very same branch from which he’d fallen. There are some that might call that stupidity. Then there are others like myself who would call that tenacity. And while I generally have no interest in being a squirrel, in this particular respect I wouldn’t mind being like one.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

337. “I have been driven to desperation more times than I can count. But it is here that I have been driven to the greatest inspiration that I can contain.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

338. “Has my life been cheated by the shortness of the time afforded me, or is it possible that the greater part of my life has been saved for a time where there is no time?”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

339. “To believe in the story of Easter is to believe that a wall is nothing more than a door in disguise.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

340. “Without a beginning I am pouring the whole of my existence into the building of endings, while the cross and the resurrection declare that God is incessantly building beginnings from the collapse of endings.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

341. “If truth be told, life is so remarkably rich that we will always owe life a debt that we have no means to pay. With that being the case, maybe the biggest thing that I owe life is an apology for the assumption that life owes me.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

342. “The ‘fact’ of my actions frequently collide with the ‘fiction’ of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

343. “Despite the voices of the culture that would scream otherwise, victory is irreparably tied to the surrender of self. And that explains why so few are truly victorious.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

344. “Life is such that beginnings and endings are neither. For in fact, they perpetually lay the groundwork for the other.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

345. “Freedom is viewed as a ‘right’ to those who don’t yet understand that everything is a ’privilege.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

346. “The child you hold in your arms is your gift to a future that you will not see. Therefore, we must turn a blind eye to ourselves and selflessly pour the best of ourselves into our children while rigorously sifting out the worst of ourselves. And once we are utterly spent by such daring gestures, we will shockingly discover the resulting emptiness as astonishingly filled.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

347. “The roads of life are paved wide and skirt the mountains. And these very roads are choked with a steady stream of pathetically pedantic travelers who in reality have no intent of traveling. And if we are to discover the real travelers, much less join them, we will find them out on precarious paths that defy the roads and scale the mountains.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

348. “We look around us and we find ourselves confused as to why the world has fallen into such deep darkness. And standing in this descending darkness, what we need to realize is that the farther we move from God, the darker everything gets. And no light of man can illuminate that kind of darkness.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

349. “If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

350. “What we build certainly might look like a refuge, but if it wasn’t designed by God it’s something more akin to a leaky tent in the middle of a category 5 hurricane on a Monday morning. Nothing about it is good.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough