Quotes from Craig D. Lounsbrough

Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.

Too often my solution is to let something die because I can't keep it alive, when God's solution is to let something live because His Son already died for it.

Death reminds us that life is a temporary privilege, not an endless right.

Somewhere, somehow, something arises out of the ashes of our losses to remind us that nothing ever ceases. Nothing ever vanishes. Nothing ever comes to nothing.

Often we don't see the majesty of God's design because we're caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.

Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?

In reality, is being sedentary a choice to run from our calling by not running after it?

When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.

I am the greatest obstacle to my greatest dreams.

Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away.

Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.

Jesus came to give us life so unimaginably beyond anything that we could ever hope to conceptualize that wonder cannot help but be our constant companion.

The hallmark of great dreams is not their possibility but their impossibility, and the fact that it is the very notion of the 'impossible' that inspires us to go and accomplish them anyway.

Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might now exist.

Faith is the resplendent key that liberates me from the impregnable confines meticulously constructed from the raw material of my disbelief.

I must not imagine what is 'not' as a means of escaping what 'is'. Rather, I must understand what 'is' and imagine how I can make it what it is 'not'.

I want to have the eyes of an adult to see the world as it is, but I more desperately want to have the heart of a child to make certain that I never forget what it could be.

With God, a mountain before me is soon to be a memory behind me.

Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.

Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.

If we're honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.

If your dream doesn't scare you, it's not big enough.

Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.

We will understand the depth of our vision when at some point we are finally faced with the price we must pay to achieve it. And when the price comes calling, most visions end up falling.