Craig D. Lounsbrough

Quotes

• “Fear tells me that while there might be a host of people who wish to stand beside me in times of crisis, the tangled wre...”
• “If there is any solace to be found in the carnage of September 11th, may I find it in understanding that the potential t...”
• “Will I someday pass into history having passed by God and therefore forfeited the opportunity to change my world and rea...”
• “To build refuges of my own making is to construct fortresses of sand at ocean’s edge, where the relentless tides of time...”
• “It is not within my power to refuse the journey of life regardless of the nature of my fears or the depth of my selfishn...”
• “Shrewdly crafted political agendas, innately complex philosophies, man-made religions, governments and regimes of every ...”
• “It‘s utterly astounding that every time I get knocked down God’s mercy compassionately raises me to my feet; His grace t...”
• “If I have found my journey to be a maddening tangle of wandering ‘rabbit-trails,’ a labyrinth of incessantly circular pa...”
• “One of a mother’s greatest gifts is to teach her child that to grow is not to timidly sit on some safe shore at water’s ...”
• “Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself into believing that thi...”
• “The child you hold in your arms is your gift to a future that you will not see. Therefore, we must turn a blind eye to o...”
• “To strategize a rescue mission irrefutably capable of saving every human being is leagues beyond our ability to comprehe...”
• “I’ve always marveled that geese can feel a call stirring, rise on hardy wings to engage it, and without contemplation, c...”
• “Do I dare believe such an absurdly outrageous story that a man would die, lay lifeless in some tomb for three days and t...”
• “Thanksgiving is not some formulaic action based on a tedious ledger that neatly tallies everything I have received so I ...”
• “If your portfolio is made up of the investments that you have made in the lives of people, you will have amassed a wealt...”
• “Although it pains me, I must admit that I have never found what I ‘need.’ And I am in this place because long ago I took...”
• “The roads of life are paved wide and skirt the mountains. And these very roads are choked with a steady stream of pathet...”
• “It is my wish and most cherished hope that God would be pleased with my legacy, that lives would be changed by it, and t...”
• “We can certainly run from a lot of things. But when we eventually pull up exhausted and entirely out of breath, we are r...”
• “I am not the sum total of my accomplishments, for no matter how much I exhaust myself acquiring those accomplishments, t...”
• “What is an adventure, I might ask? And in the asking, I might begin to understand that my adventures are sorely limited ...”
• “Words can be honed to crafted perfection by the finest wordsmiths. Yet, if we trust solely in the expanse of them to exp...”
• “To savor the simple privilege that every day I have a sunrise to bathe in, a storehouse of opportunities to romp through...”
• “Whatever the depth of our darkness, God navigated it eons before it was dark. And whatever the duration of our nights, G...”
• “Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can’t manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do...”
• “Self-preservation is to hunker down in the suffocating confines of this infinitesimally tiny existence that I define as ...”
• “To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'bless...”
• “If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the sava...”
• “The world brazenly touts freedom as both the inalienable right and morally liberating justification to mindlessly play i...”
• “To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming ...”
• “God chose to deliberately venture into and intentionally occupy depths far below and infinitely beyond that which any hu...”
• “I am pressed to admit that I don’t have the capacity to understand the bloodied horrors of a cross and the wild exhilara...”
• “Is my faith so terribly pathetic that I have diminished God to the point that I doubt His ability to survive in the very...”
• “Sooner or later I will realize that the very things I most desperately need are the very things I am unable to give myse...”
• “My soul is utterly frantic for that single place of perfect refuge from which I can clearly see the winds rip and hear t...”
• “If I can draw the slightest smile across a single face obliterated by pain, in that act I will have begun to understand ...”
• “We can breathe in the sweet scent of a tepid summer’s meadow after the kiss of a warm rain, and in the very same moment ...”
• “What would behoove me to instantly declare God not to be God unless He followed my script in some tediously exacting man...”
• “The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, and that alone is frigh...”
• “Christmas is not something that sprang from the musings of some person who creatively devised caricatures of elves, spir...”
• “All too soon the garden of childhood is paved cold with the asphalt roads of adulthood. And while it is not within her p...”
• “Today I must look in the mirror and be thankful for the person who I find staring back at me. For although the reflectio...”
• “What I’ve yet to realize is that each time I work to avoid that which I fear, I have in that very same action forfeited ...”
• “Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protec...”
• “Perfect majesty that deliberately chose to be born into abject poverty, walk a road of perpetual poverty, and be unjustl...”
• “There’s something of a restorative quality about spring, where something whispers wild rumors of new beginnings arising ...”
• “There was a moment when any hope within me froze solid and I was finally emptied of all energy to fight the cold. And at...”
• “If you want to completely destroy a child, all you have to do is mold them into your vision of what you want them to be....”
• “Far too often the ‘things’ that men define as success do little more than successfully destroy the lives of the very men...”