Craig D. Lounsbrough
"We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong."
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"We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The sacrifice ‘of’ self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice ‘for’ self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Discerning the difference between a dictator and a leader is quite easy. The former cannot help but see ‘leading’ and ‘serving’ as stark contradictions that by their very nature are utterly incompatible. The latter can’t tell the difference"
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of freedom and not feel a thing. And my most solemn prayer is that I will never be this."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Rare are the handful of principles that incessantly drive us to stand even when we face the stark realization that we will likely perish in the standing. And rarer still is the person who will surrender all to protect such principles. Yet, the rudimentary principles of freedom and liberty pristinely untarnished by greed and selfishness took captive the hearts of simple people and raised this nation up from untamed wilderness and unchecked tyranny. And let us all be warned that without renewed adherence to these principles, we will rapidly return this nation to untamed wilderness and unchecked tyranny."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"It is at the precise moment that I take something for granted that I have placed myself in the precarious position of losing that very thing. And if that thing I risk losing is liberty, taking it for granted is foolishness of the most foolish sort."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Independence that has declared its ‘independence’ from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Sometimes the very things that we’re expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let’s die so that we can live."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"One of the greatest lies is to believe that we don’t have value. One of the greatest mistakes is to act on that belief. And the greatest liberation is found in looking at the cross of Christ and realizing the enormity of the lie."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"We work hard to believe that our actions really don’t affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I don’t know that love is freedom. Rather, I think it’s more a force to preserve freedom."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Rights’ are ‘privileges,’ and if I am arrogant enough to demand the former without respecting the latter I will lose both."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under it’s own weight and we with it. Forgiveness is freedom multiplied against the Cross until it flies under it’s own liberation and we with it."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Men can dig wells, but they can’t create water."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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