Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

Commitment is a promise to a cause. Being non-committal is a promise to catastrophe.

There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences.

Betrayal dressed in love and trimmed with the facade of good intentions is the most barbaric of all betrayals.

Every life is a canvas and every interaction is a brush, therefore we’d be wise to consider how we handle the paint.

In the midst of our worried searching we recklessly abandon the treasures that life has bestowed upon us in the mad hunt for that which we wish to bestow upon ourselves.

Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on.

It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.

Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness.

Christmas is God saving mankind from the folly of mankind’s grandiose sense of greatness.

Christmas is not a story birthed of a humanized god for it simply doesn’t fit into the rubric of such an emaciated plot.

Christmas was about understanding that servanthood would win the hearts of men for eternity, where raw power might win them only for a moment, if at all.

Christmas was an ingenious plan designed by God to lay siege to the hearts of all men by submitting Himself to the greed of all men.

We cannot humanize the fact that the story was penned to have the eternal God, Who Himself knows no beginning nor is in need of one, choose to experience a beginning. That is genius in and of itself.

Christmas is a clandestinely ingenious script that outlines a plan to reclaim mankind through a strategy unimagined and unimaginable. This strategy involved God writing His own death into the script.

Christmas is everything that God would do, and nothing that we would imagine Him doing.

Maybe the greatest hope of Christmas is that what it purports to be is exactly what it is.

The ‘deep pause’ needed to cultivate wonder is far too often back-filled with an incessant busyness, as busyness errantly presumes a ‘deep pause’ to be deeply wasteful.

My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.

It’s about recognizing that the great movements and moments in history laid on the backs of ordinary people who simply chose to do extraordinary things.

Being our best is asking how can we take ourselves to the precipice of our own limits in any and every situation?

Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need.

I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it’s louder.

Uncommon solutions can always overcome problems of the most common or uncommon kind if I am sufficiently committed to overcoming them.

I would be quite wise to realize that I will never craft a solution that will be the ‘end-all, ’ and that God’s ability to craft perfect solutions never ends ‘at-all.

I suppose that one of my greatest problem lays in the fact that I have assumed a blessing to be something that is mine for the taking, verses being something that by sheer exposure to it takes me.

Can anything be called an achievement if it does not simultaneously enhance the life of someone other than the one who has done the achieving?

Being lost without grasping the rather obvious fact that we are lost is by far the best guarantee we have that we’re going to stay lost.

If in fact it’s not too late to realize that something’s ‘too late’, then there’s a good chance that it’s not.

It is the state of the heart within us that determines the nature of the triggers we will pull outside of us.

I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.

If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth.

I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t put me any place else.

We opt to be seen as ‘right’ in the eyes of everyone else, rather than doing what’s ‘right’ in light of the situation.

In God’s vocabulary, ‘lost’ is an unnecessary adjective that is easily erased by the adjective ‘found’ if we would simply be brave enough to hand Him the eraser.

The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints.

Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature, that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first.

Being our best involves walking away from every situation with less than what we had when we encountered it because we left something behind in the exchange.

The service of self terminates at our own death.

There’s something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good.

Good tells us that our agenda is the agenda of the person next to us.

To put others in front of ourselves is to put God in front of everything.

I am thankful that sacrifice is non-negotiable, and that counting the cost in giving to another is foolishly assuming that we can put a price on sacrifice.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.