Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

What I would be quite wise to remember is that ‘pieces’ are not the end of what was, but the beginning of what is to be.

Sure, things die. Yet hard on the heels of every death there comes a birth. And if the life around me is being perpetually refreshed in such a relentless manner, why would I think that the life within me can’t have the same experience.

Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginning that is on its way, we will live terribly soiled lives.

To blithely discard the spent kernels of something that has ended is to discard the very resources that have painstakingly been harvested from that ending from which a spirited new beginning will be cultivated.

The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.

If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel my abilities into the wrong places.

To be alone with myself in the space of silence is horrifying, for I know with the utmost certainty that in that space I will hear the very things that I constantly use the clamor to drown out. And so the question becomes, how long can I keep up all the noise?

One sure way I can avoid facing myself is by refusing to look into the face of God.

Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.

Kicking the can down the road implies that we’re accepted the galling reality that whatever it is that we’ve avoiding, it’s something that’s not going to go away; at least on its own.

The problem is not that we don’t recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don’t want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it.

I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.

To build refuges of my own making is to construct fortresses of sand at ocean’s edge, where the relentless tides of time will leave my most magnificently constructed walls as perfectly flat sand. And now that I am subject to the very tides that destroyed these walls of mine, I am left with the reality that my single and sole refuge can only be the God who created both tides and sand.

Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end.

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

“Even if yesterday was wildly successful, I still don’t want to repeat it. Rather, I want to build on it.”

“If I’ve granted myself a wide margin of error, I’m probably going to have a slim chance of success.”

“Don’t focus on what you haven’t done. Rather, focus on the fact that what you ‘haven’t done’ is often the best indicator of what you should be doing.”

“The goal is the journey done well.”

“The cost of success is that I must be willing to fail far more times than I succeed, which is why so few of us are successful.”