Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

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.

If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.

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.

To be an end in myself is to bring an end to myself.

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.

To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.

We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be.

If I don’t know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else.

The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.

Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.

The death of our self-worth begins at its appraisal, for such an action erroneously implies that our worth can be quantified.

Whatever the item is that I have chosen to give you, it is nothing more than the receptacle within which I have placed the whole of myself. If it is empty, it is not a gift.

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.

If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.

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

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.

I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I’ve been saved from myself.

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.

I am what no one else is, and in the hands of God I can do what no one else does. And if I dare set such a truth in motion I will change my world.

A conviction borne of God amply possesses the potency and power to brazenly reach beyond the possible in order to topple the impossible.

Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God's goal of the impossible.

How often do I stand in abject terror and raw trepidation before the impossible peaks that soar to impossible heights in front me, when God turns to me and calmly says “what mountains?

Calm for too long begs the question of whether we're in an all-out pursuit of life, or we're all-out of the pursuit of life.

The hallmark of great dreams is not their possibility but their impossibility, and the fact that it is the very notion of the ‘impossible’ that inspires us to go and accomplish them anyway.

My vision of what God can do is nothing more than a fleeting glance of the backside of the ‘possible, ’ while God is inviting me to the forefront of the ‘impossible.

I am most thankful for what I don’t have, for had my life’s wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God’s treasures.

The presence of a path doesn’t necessarily mean the existence of a destination.

The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.

There are often two sets of goals in life: those that we establish, and those that really matter.

The barrier to our future is often the very plans that we’ve created to get there.

Although I regularly convince myself otherwise, because I aim at something doesn’t necessarily mean I have a target.

Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.

Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay.

Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb.

Forgiveness means that you will not allow a temporary event to have “forever” repercussions.

To forgive is to refuse to contaminate the future with the errors of the past.

We can hide a lot of stuff until God shows up, for when God shows up nothing is hidden, which includes both our embarrassment and His forgiveness.

Forgiving others simply means that you refuse to be a prisoner of a past that you can't change, and shackled to decisions that you didn't make.

If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed a pay-off, I’m only assuming a sacrifice.

To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place.

Today’s ashes are tomorrow’s soil.

A hole is a space where everything has been moved out so that opportunity has space to move in.

We myopically stare at the gaping hole left in our lives and see nothing but the hole, not realizing a hole is defined by everything around it that is not a hole.

Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake.

We can’t even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending.

Too often my solution is to let something die because I can’t keep it alive, when God’s solution is to let something live because His Son already died for it.

Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both.

Maybe the thing that we’re losing is the very thing that has caused us to lose everything else in the first place.

We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.