3,025 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

It’s not about changing the world, although that’s what we seem to rally around. Rather, it’s about changing ourselves for that is the seed from which changing the world sprouts.

It is autumn on tip-toe that silently walks the hills and treads the forested expanses, gracing in each step a billion leaves in a chorus of colors so brilliantly ingenious that a thousand museums or more could not hold the artistry because a thousand artists or more will never possess the talent to produce what autumn effortlessly creates.

True nobility is to exercise power as a servant to all and master of none.

To live ‘for’ myself is to live ‘by’ myself. And do I really want to do that ‘to’ myself?

Maybe finding ‘peace of mind’ begins by realizing that ‘peace’ will never begin in my ‘mind.’ And if I spend my life paying such a thought ‘no mind,’ never-mind finding ‘peace.

Just knowing that God goes with us changes everything about the place that we’re going, as well as the place we were at before we went there.

Really it’s about God saving me from myself, for if that doesn’t happen ‘first’ then there is no ‘second’.

Treasures are hidden away in quiet places.  They speak in soft tones and often become silenced as we approach.  They don’t beg to be found, but embrace us if we do happen to find them.  They are the product of completely ordinary circumstances unfolding in wonderfully extraordinary ways.  They are found hidden in the nooks and crannies of our existence; all around us if we quit allowing our attention to be captivated by that which is noisy and listen for that which is quiet and still.

Having lived with nothing is the gift that allows me to appreciate the privilege of having everything.