“ If those who cause destruction have come to be ‘newsworthy’, and those who heal the devastation of that destruction have come to be less than ‘noteworthy’, has our thirst to be entertained become the… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’. And while it’s ‘right’ to admit this to myself, it isn’t ‘easy.’ So, which choice am I g… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would never do to understand that I’m not as wonderful as I thought I was. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of th… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ To assume that I can even begin to chart a ‘straight’ path is probably the best way I can take myself ‘straight’ to the very place I don’t want to go. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ I think myself so terribly ‘clever’ that the need for God is blatantly irrelevant. And all the while, in the rapidly growing mess that I’m ‘cleverly’ creating, I rather quickly begin to realize that t… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ To be ‘one’ in one’s own hands is to be ‘one.’ To be ‘one’ in the hands of God is to be ‘one’ that is far too vast to be counted. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ At some point I hope to have grown sufficiently in both stature and wisdom to understand that I cannot deliver myself from myself, and that God alone can save me from me. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it’s translucent and clean. In other w… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ I take my cues from the world around me and carefully paint a self-portrait that the world can’t help but accept. However, I would be much wiser to put down all such artistic notions and hold up the p… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ If I can’t quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that’s killing itself in the very act of feeding itself. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I’m sitting in. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I’ve been saved from myself. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me. Craig D. Lounsbrough
