Quotes from Craig D. Lounsbrough

If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.

I am likely to fail if I have determined the cost as too high or my intelligence as too low. Yet, if I think about it, the real failure rests in believing either of these to be true.

It is in opposing the world's lies that we impose truth in our hearts.

If truth is relative, then it's cousin is anarchy.

The 'fact' of my actions frequently collide with the 'fiction' of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?

To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.

Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God.

Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it.

Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.

True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us.

Truth speaks for itself if we'd just let it speak.

Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.

Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can't speak for itself, it's not truth.

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.

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.

Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul.

I am thankful that sacrifice is non-negotiable, and that counting the cost in giving to another is foolishly assuming that we can put a price on sacrifice.

I have yet to learn that I am not designed to carry the burden of men. Rather, I am designed to carry the love of God so that I might soothe the burden of men.

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.

The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.

If I'm my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.

The death of our self-worth begins at its appraisal, for such an action erroneously implies that our worth can be quantified.

If we limit love to being nothing more than a feeling, we have no real feeling for what love is.

Love that is fueled solely by feelings will suddenly find itself out of gas on a long road with no gas stations.