Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I’m touching, so I’d better start paying attention to what I’m touching.

Love is a perpetual journey that is extraordinary because it will never find itself terminated by a destination.

The step that we are on is only a step to the next place, and no step regardless of how massive is ever a destination.

We can only climb the mountains because there’s a valley that makes the mountain a mountain.

We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts.

I would be an utter fool to let my journey be defined by the denial of the journey.

Are the returns on my journey equal to the length of the road behind me? And if not, have I realized the pressing need to surrender to God the road in front of me?

If my goal is simply to survive the journey, then I’m not on the journey in the first place.

It is inevitable that I will leave a legacy simply because I cannot walk through life without leaving footprints as I walk. Therefore, I would be wise to consider the path before I make the prints.

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.

The burdens I carry on my back are in direct correlation to the weight of my ego.

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.

Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.

An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.

You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.

If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life.

Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul.

I am thankful that in the giving we receive, and what we receive is the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we give is always bigger once we’ve given it away.

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron’s I can think of.

I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of them, they are entirely counterfeit and I have been robbed blind by the work of my own hands.

The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.