Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the...

Sooner or later I will realize that the very things I most desperately need are the very things I am unable to give myself. Therefore, I will either be left despising the fact that I am doomed to live...

Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it has first looked after others. And help me to realize that anything less is not a heart.

To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.

My definition of success is not based on achieving the impossible, but rather surviving the probable. And with a threshold that horribly low, simple survival cannot help but become my highest aspirati...

God has given me both the right and privilege to outrun Him if I so choose. Yet, if I do so, I will have lost the race.

Sacrifice is a passion that unleashes everything away from us so that it can be drawn into everyone around us.

I much prefer not to fall, unless of course I am falling into the hands of God.

Mediocrity is the companion of passivity and will not heed the call of great things. Courage is the companion of sacrifice and cannot help but heed the call of great things. And we are left of our own...

With God, a mountain before me is soon to be a memory behind me.

Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.

I am thankful that to be attuned to the needs of another attunes us to the world, and that if I stay attuned only to my needs I will always be a stranger to the world.

Faith revels in the liberating fact that only a terribly miniscule part of life lies within the constricted confines of my reach, and that I am graciously invited out to live in a place beyond my gras...

To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming us to endure the hard lessons that are likely to be forgotten by those who will...

The hands of man can manufacture many things both penetratingly brilliant and utterly astounding. Yet, despite their amazing dexterity and profound skill they cannot manufacture hope. Such a masterpie...

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 f...

Will I someday pass into history having passed by God and therefore forfeited the opportunity to change my world and reap the blessing of being able to do so because I saw myself as inadequate to achi...

Hope is oxygen to the soul, and God is the oxygen of hope.

With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way.

Hope is not some thin thing that is subject to the winds of fate. Rather, it is something crafted hard by the hands of God.