Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.

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.

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

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

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.

Failure is not the deterrent for the next try. Rather, it is information that empowers the next step.

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.

In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend...

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

A father teaches his children that the battle is not determined by the enemy that stands around them, but by the God Who stands within them. And that lesson can only be driven home as they watch their...

If there is any solace to be found in the carnage of September 11th, may I find it in understanding that the potential to do great good can handily rival the tendency to carry out great evil. And out...

When surrounded by the ashes of all that I once cherished, despite my best efforts I can find no room to be thankful. But standing there amidst endless ash I must remember that although the ashes surr...

The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints.

The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known.

We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.

If I can draw the slightest smile across a single face obliterated by pain, in that act I will have begun to understand the power of an ordinary human being to perform the seemingly impossible in the...

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.

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.

The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.