Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path.  For easy and right are rarely compatible.

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.

My definition of success is not based on achieving the impossible, but rather surviving the probable. And with a threshold that horribly low, simple survival cannot help but become my highest aspiration.

Far too often the ‘things’ that men define as success do little more than successfully destroy the lives of the very men who achieve those ‘things.’ And while I must admit that there is an authentic element of success in all of that, it’s the kind of success that I would much prefer to successfully avoid.

Authentic love is deciding to live on a one-way street where all the arrows point down the street and not a single one of them point back up to where I’m standing.

As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.

It’s not about describing someone as that’s typically an attempt to make whatever they are comfortable for whoever we are. Instead, we may wish to skip the agenda of the description and embrace the wonder of the person.

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

Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.

Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.

I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.

What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I’d better figure out what I rubbing up against.

Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth.

A life that chooses not to grow is a life that died long before it ever lived.

To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear.

Too often we make it more about what stands before us, and we miss all that stands within us.

Ignorance is my refusal to think outside the box of my fears.