Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What have I accomplished other than staying alive long enough to ask what I’ve accomplished. But is that, in fact, not an accomplishment?”

“Realizing that ‘possession’ is an illusion finally liberates us to possess something that is never an illusion and is always liberating; and that is the reality that we are God’s cherished possession. Therefore, life is not about acquiring possessions. Rather, it’s about being one.”

“Winning is based on the definition that we have assigned to ‘winning.’ And if we look at most of our definitions, we’ve rarely won anything.”

“If the achieving of the goal was not enhanced by the effort to get there, you achieved something but it was not your goal.”

“We will never rise on the wings of our own ingenuity or wisdom, for those are the things that lift nothing other than our ego in the process of crashing our lives. Rather, it is the surrender of the smallness of self to the enormity of God that allows us to soar.”

“Real treasure is not about what we found. Rather, it’s about the fact that we finally found it.”

“Mistakes are the enemies that I’ve made of them because I’ve chosen to believe that they are the stuff of my ruin instead of the ingredients of my success.”

“When I surrender to God all of the things in my life that I have surrendered to, I have surrendered to ever having to surrender again.”

“When our lives lay in scorched shambles, we cannot allow our lives to take on the identity of the carnage that lies smoldering all around us. Therefore, we must create something that irrefutably declares we are not what lies strewn at our feet. And so, we create successes that declare we are not this! Yet, the carnage remains.”

“It is in the defeat that we find the ingredients for the next success.”

“Failure is not failure unless we fail to learn from it.”

“Without hesitation, I can tell you that it wasn’t the ability to get it right that got me here. Rather, it was the ability to learn every time that I got it wrong.”

“Never having made a mistake is a success that is always inferior to having made a mistake and having learned from it.”

“Behind the mask of pessimism there is nothing more than this pathetic fear that spends every waking moment of its day fearing that we might actually succeed. ”

“Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.”

“A day doesn’t go by where a day doesn’t go ‘bye.’ Therefore, you might consider what you doing with it before it’s done with you.”

“The great things are never outdated by time or technological advances. Rather, they are the things that time and technology cannot move forward without.”

“Impacting a life is not so much about what we did for another. Rather, it was more about what we sacrificed in doing it. For the ‘thing’ is certain to fade with time, but the ‘sacrifice’ will be nurtured by it.”

“Truth even in the most whispered tones will always roar.”