Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.

If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.

I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.

For love to eliminate pain is to waste it, for it is love alone that possesses sufficient force to bend pain against everything that would break us.

Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and c...

The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.

We are quick to surrender that which we deem as long dead, when God is quick to restore that which He deems as never really having lived.

We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in whatever fashion we choose. Yet, seldom do we understand the power of the pen and the privilege of the p...

I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.

I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave...

If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself...

If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

God is able to fix that which is broken so that what stands repaired is immeasurably greater than that which stood before it needed repair. Therefore, the most staggering brokenness conceivable is in...

Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds.

The greatest men stand on their values and pray on their knees.

The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.

The greatest loss lies in our inability to accept loss.

At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the very thing I used my imagination to avoid.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.