Quotes from Craig D. Lounsbrough

Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it is never too big for God to understand nor is it ever too vast for Him to deliver.

Truth even in the most whispered tones will always roar.

You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.

To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin.

With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way.

The road to success is paved with the hot asphalt of failure.

The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.

It's not about inviting great things into our lives. Rather, it's about accepting the invitation of great things to step out of our lives.

The world screams, 'Stay down, it's safer.' My soul screams, 'So is being dead.

Despite the voices of the culture that would scream otherwise, victory is irreparably tied to the surrender of self. And that explains why so few are truly victorious.

Dreams must be chased, for if we wait for them to chase us we will live a life of waiting.

Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.

Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay.

Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb.

We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.

The most critical time in any battle is not when I'm fatigued, it's when I no longer care.

In my desperation, I have finally discovered that the only way that I can begin to fill the gaping hole within me is to be thankful for what's there, and not angry for what's not.

If I continually focus on what I don't have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it's completely full.

Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.

Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.

Until I realize that it's all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.

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.

I can only see life as this most miserable accident that I have been forced to endure simply because I refuse to see it as the most astounding plan that I have been privileged to engage.

The only thing I have to wait for to change my life is my attitude.