Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is."
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"Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Although it would lead me to believe otherwise, fear has little interest in intimidating me. Rather, it much prefers to enslave me."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To ‘stop and smell the roses’ we must first believe that there’s a rose garden out there somewhere. And in this jaded world of ours, the refusal to believe in gardens leaves most of us ref of roses."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Maybe we need to reflect on the fact that the patience of God always outruns the impatience of our greed, and that His love always outweighs the greed that outweighs our love for Him."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I constantly pack my pockets full of worthless trinkets, and in such misguided gorging I leave my heart empty and my soul emaciated because I have forgotten everything but trinkets."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Commitment is a promise to a cause. Being non-committal is a promise to catastrophe."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Betrayal dressed in love and trimmed with the facade of good intentions is the most barbaric of all betrayals."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"It’s not so much about the cards you’re dealt; it’s a whole lot more about whether you play them well, or play them at all."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Every life is a canvas and every interaction is a brush, therefore we’d be wise to consider how we handle the paint."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Loving those who hate us means wantonly setting the stage and orchestrating the situation in a way that’s sure to result in a production of great personal calamity. But to not love them is an even greater calamity."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"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."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"There’s something inherently majestic about Christmas that seems to have been abandoned by us; something flippantly cast aside, something that was foolishly abandoned and was tragically forgotten in the abandonment."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Christmas is God saving mankind from the folly of mankind’s grandiose sense of greatness."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Christmas was a response of the choice of mankind to take its existence into its own hands and chart its own course, liberally scripting its own ethics, crafting its own moral system, and choosing to believe that it was the creator and therefore master of its fate. Christmas is a response to mankind reeling off the pages of history and splattering the blood of lives and generations wasted along its free-wheeling course."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"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."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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