Quotes from Craig D. Lounsbrough

Loss is an invitation to a journey of unparalleled growth, yet we seldom RSVP the invitation.

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.

The only reason I can't jump in and engage life is that I've told myself I can't. Yet I can't helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could?

To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.

I often ask to what place I am running, for if I am unable to identify that place it is likely that I am running in a circle of the most circular sort.

To fall is not to fail. To fail is to never fall because I never got up in the first place.

Is the goal I've set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?

Because I have 'chosen' to see something as impossible, there's a good chance that it's not.

I can bow to fear and flee the pursuit of great things. I can bow to God and engage in the pursuit of making things great.

It would be infinitely more prudent to be a single "David" standing with God, than a million "Goliath's" standing without Him.

How often do I stand in abject terror and raw trepidation before the impossible peaks that soar to impossible heights in front me, when God turns to me and calmly says "what mountains?

Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God's goal of the impossible.

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.

Although it would lead me to believe otherwise, fear has little interest in intimidating me. Rather, it much prefers to enslave me.

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.