Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

Men can dig wells, but they can’t create water.

What is an adventure, I might ask? And in the asking, I might begin to understand that my adventures are sorely limited to the confines of my lackluster imagination. Therefore, an adventure of the most robust and wild sort must be constructed by an unlimited imagination. And unless I am mistaken, only God has an imagination like that.

Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming.

Decisions are the privilege we’ve been granted to have a hand in penning the script of our lives. And in the writing, the question is not the availability of the paper or the pen. The question is the wisdom to use them rightly.

Every tomorrow is an outcome of what I do today, and the beauty of it all is that today is happening all the time.

I can be absolutely assured that any endeavor of which God is not a part is most certainly a step backward. And any step backward is at least two steps behind where I’d be if I’d have gone forward in the first place.

Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under it’s own weight and we with it. Forgiveness is freedom multiplied against the Cross until it flies under it’s own liberation and we with it.

The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom.

Rights’ are ‘privileges,’ and if I am arrogant enough to demand the former without respecting the latter I will lose both.

It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.

The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.

We work hard to believe that our actions really don’t affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much.

I don’t know that love is freedom. Rather, I think it’s more a force to preserve freedom.

To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all.

Sometimes the very things that we’re expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let’s die so that we can live.

One of the greatest lies is to believe that we don’t have value. One of the greatest mistakes is to act on that belief. And the greatest liberation is found in looking at the cross of Christ and realizing the enormity of the lie.

That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.

Independence that has declared its ‘independence’ from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy.

To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I cant save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that Ive stumbled upon the very freedom Ive longed for in the very place Id least expected it.

Rare are the handful of principles that incessantly drive us to stand even when we face the stark realization that we will likely perish in the standing. And rarer still is the person who will surrender all to protect such principles. Yet, the rudimentary principles of freedom and liberty pristinely untarnished by greed and selfishness took captive the hearts of simple people and raised this nation up from untamed wilderness and unchecked tyranny. And let us all be warned that without renewed adherence to these principles, we will rapidly return this nation to untamed wilderness and unchecked tyranny.