Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Craig D. Lounsbrough
Craig D. Lounsbrough Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we've given them permission to be impossible.
Forgiving others simply means that you refuse to be a prisoner of a past that you can't change, and shackled to decisions that you didn't make.
God designed love to be massive enough to live in pain and subdue pain's attributes for phenomenal growth.
Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God's majesty.
To believe in God is to wager everything on the person who created everything, and no mistake could ever arise out of that.
How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to 'draw the line,' and we showed up with an eraser?
It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.
God's love is marvelous and mysterious, and no effort of man - no matter how elegant or purposeful - can explain that.
A conviction borne of God amply possesses the potency and power to brazenly reach beyond the possible in order to topple the impossible.
Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.
I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.
To destroy that which seeks to destroy me, God invites me to stand against it until it stands down and then falls down.
Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.
If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey?
True peace cannot be found in a 'place'. Rather, it is found in a Person who can be with you in any 'place'.
We may find great relief and inexplicable solace in purposefully looking beyond grief in order to determine the provision made within it.
I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear not a reality of my journey.
I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I've been saved from myself.
Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the 'gift of life' if we ever hope to be thankful for the 'gifts' of life.
To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all.
If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel my abilities into the wrong places.
Thankfulness allows us to walk through a world inundated by opportunities and possessions, being slaves to neither.
To dream only of what is 'possible' is to be fooled into believing that one is dreaming in the first place.
Abundance is grasped by infusing our souls with the intoxicatingly liberating fact that life is a privilege, not a right.
Any dream that I am absolutely confident I can achieve should immediately be discarded for the simple reason that it is simply too small.
It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.
The greatest imagination in all of existence is one that would be able to take 'nothing' and imagine 'something' from 'nothing.' And that is God.
In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape.
Is safety the 'dream' that will kill all of my other 'dreams?' For the truth is, no 'real' dream is safe.
If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.
Looking back, I now realize that I left home in search of all the things that were right in the very place I left.
Bobbing and weaving are methods and maneuvers by which we bend ethics, water down morals, and parse down values to serve our agendas.
I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.
In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.
Life is bigger than any of us will ever be as an individual. Purpose tells us that we're specifically designed to engage every bit of that.
Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible.
If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in.
An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.
It may be that we're not seeing the wonder in life because all we're doing is wondering how we're going to survive life.
The step that we are on is only a step to the next place, and no step regardless of how massive is ever a destination.
Hope is not some thin thing that is subject to the winds of fate, but it is crafted hard by the hands of God.
Ego is borne of the need to 'prove' oneself instead of making the choice to 'be' oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.
If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth.
The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.
Love means that we remain committed to loving even at the times when the emotion is so diminished or altogether missing that we can't feel it.
An idea without sacrifice, regardless of grand it might be, will never be anything more than an idea.
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?
The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create.
We live with this tortured feeling that we must create that which in reality we have the privilege of finding.
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.
Christmas is not a story birthed of a humanized god for it simply doesn't fit into the rubric of such an emaciated plot.
To lust for something is desire turned selfish and gone mad. To embrace God's passion is desire turned selfless and gone mindful.
To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron's I can think of.
Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.
If I have not been both soothed by love and on the opposite extreme left devastated by it, I will never understand its power nor respect its majesty.
A consequence may be the very thing that saves us because it was the only thing loud enough to get our attention.
We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we've done with it.