Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether."
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"Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The roads of life are paved wide and skirt the mountains. And these very roads are choked with a steady stream of pathetically pedantic travelers who in reality have no intent of traveling. And if we are to discover the real travelers, much less join them, we will find them out on precarious paths that defy the roads and scale the mountains."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"God’s decision to reach out in such dramatic fashion as to lay all rightful privilege aside and be born into abject destitution tells us that His passion for us exceeds our desire for Him. And maybe we should commit to evening that up a bit."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"In our frenzied attempts to catch up with life, we run right past it. Once we have run past it, what we are in reality attempting to catch is ourselves."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores its scraps."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"One of the most terrifying questions of all might be, ‘Will I unleash myself to live before death unleashes me from the ability to be unleashed?’ And in retrospect, maybe it’s not the question that’s terrifying. Maybe what’s terrifying is the answer."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Sacrifice is a passion that unleashes everything away from us so that it can be drawn into everyone around us."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I’ve always marveled that geese can feel a call stirring, rise on hardy wings to engage it, and without contemplation, compass or map complete the feat. And could it be that they achieve this astounding accomplishment because far too often contemplation, compass or map rob the call by sterile analysis when we should liberate the call through expectant obedience."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I want to stand on the foundation of ethics and morals when the world around me would assault that foundation with all of its collective might, and in the standing I want to stand on the truth that that foundation will stand long after everything that has assailed it has itself has ceased to stand."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I want to stand on the truth that God has designed us to stand, and that the opportunity to stand is the opportunity to live exuberantly and gloriously."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Mediocrity is the companion of passivity and will not heed the call of great things. Courage is the companion of sacrifice and cannot help but heed the call of great things. And we are left of our own accord to choose one or the other."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To live safely within the realm of possibility is to know nothing other than that which is possible. To live boldly within the realm of God is to experience everything that’s impossible."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I can bow to fear and flee the pursuit of great things. I can bow to God and engage in the pursuit of making things great."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"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 the blessings that my fear blinded me to. And I’ve yet to realize that with God, the blessings will always and forever eclipse whatever I fear despite how absolutely imposing those fears might be"
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"A commitment to never getting knocked down is in reality a decision to never stand up."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"With God, a mountain before me is soon to be a memory behind me."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To grow is not to timidly sit on some safe shore at water’s edge and clumsily grab whatever happens to float by me. Rather, it is to deliberately step into waters both calm and turbulent in order to wrestle great things to shore."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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