Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.

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.

We got where we are because our choices mapped the route and paved the road.

We want to 'write in' our plan and 'write out' the consequence. When we do that, we're headed 'right back' to what we foolishly thought we could 'write out.

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.

It would be advisable to realize that we will eventually become whatever it is that we’ve created. And too often what we’ve created is a massive mess.

Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things ‘now’ or wait until ‘then.

Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself.

Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.

The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.

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.

Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.

Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.

Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the ‘gift of life’ if we ever hope to be thankful for the ‘gifts’ of life.

I can only see life as this most miserable accident that I have been forced to endure simply because I refuse to see it as the most astounding plan that I have been privileged to engage.

Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort.

We really can’t afford to live our lives walking in some sort of introspective darkness as if the darkness is the only thing that we can walk in.

Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.

Heaven shows up all the time. But we plan our time so that we show up in other places.

Blindness is a choice born of fear, nursed by complacency and groomed by comfort. And what I often don’t see in my blindness is that 'choice' evidences the existence of other options.

Sometimes the grandest of all events are described in the poverty of a few simple words.

When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.

Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.

At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.

To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.

Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.

Simply giving something ‘a shot’ is not giving something our ‘best, ’ for our best is made up of as many ‘shots’ as it takes in order to be our best.

We want a fresh start only because we didn’t sufficiently care for the last fresh start.

Death reminds us that life is a temporary privilege, not an endless right.

To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending.

We’re constantly presented with opportunity, or the opportunity to create opportunity.

Opportunity is present is wreckage as much as it is in that which is wonderful. It’s not so much how it comes to us, but what we do with it.

While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort

We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving.

I would much prefer to enlarge your life by giving you the gift of my life, rather than gifting your life to material obesity with frivolous trinkets.

Christmas is a bold act of emboldening sacrifice and the most selfless gift ever granted the rebellious lot that we are.

If I am so terribly limited as to view my handicaps as nothing more than lamentable limitations, then I have taken some of my greatest God-given assets and completely handicapped them.

To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to never hoard hoards.

The greatest abuse that we perpetrate on liberty is our assumed right to it.

And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course.

It is the restraint of patience that yields the magnificent in life.

Oftentimes I think it is far better to listen for an answer, rather than talk out of an effort to create one.

To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my ‘timetable’ is too often a ‘table’ with two legs that won’t stand up no matter how much ‘time’ I give it.

Where am I?” you ask. Where you are is where the things you’ve denied worshipping have taken you.

The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.

A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.

How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line, ’ and we showed up with an eraser?

Despite opinions to the contrary, restoring Godly values is the most progressive course of action that we could ever hope to take.

I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.