Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Can anything be called an achievement if it does not simultaneously enhance the life of someone other than the one who has done the achieving?"
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"Can anything be called an achievement if it does not simultaneously enhance the life of someone other than the one who has done the achieving?"
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I suppose that one of my greatest problem lays in the fact that I have assumed a blessing to be something that is mine for the taking, verses being something that by sheer exposure to it takes me."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To savor the simple privilege that every day I have a sunrise to bathe in, a storehouse of opportunities to romp through, the thick wrap of relationships to keep me warm, a God who meticulously tends to every detail round about me, and it all costs me not a dime. What madness would keep me from being eternally thankful for all that?"
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Being lost without grasping the rather obvious fact that we are lost is by far the best guarantee we have that we’re going to stay lost."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To be found is to be exposed. No wonder so many of us are still lost."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"If in fact it’s not too late to realize that something’s ‘too late’, then there’s a good chance that it’s not."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"It is the state of the heart within us that determines the nature of the triggers we will pull outside of us."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t put me any place else."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"We opt to be seen as ‘right’ in the eyes of everyone else, rather than doing what’s ‘right’ in light of the situation."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and blessed by God."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we not only survive to live another day, but we thrive to celebrate another day."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To fill the fathomless caverns of my thirsty soul I must work entirely contrary to impulses of my own humanity, for it is in emptying myself at the very point where I am most empty that I fill myself."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"If I give with the motive to get, regardless of the degree to which that motive besets me, I will walk away impoverished and I will leave those to whom I have given just as impoverished as I have now found myself."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire for comfort is in reality the demand that I put myself first, and there is nothing of sacrifice in that."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"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."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Real accomplishments do virtually nothing to serve me and they do everything to serve others. Anything less is nothing more than a meaningless task dressed in the deceptive finery of accomplishments."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"I am thankful that to be attuned to the needs of another attunes us to the world, and that if I stay attuned only to my needs I will always be a stranger to the world."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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