3,025 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

Blindness is far more a state of mind than it is a condition of the eyes.

Fear is less about what’s happening to me and more about how I feel about what’s happening to me. Therefore, might it be that my attitude is the thing that I should fear the most?

A lack of imagination results in a lack of living.

I need something to remind me that happiness is a gift, not a right. Pain does that quite expertly.

The state of our hearts can be determined by the weight of our words.

If we view the world based on its impact on us, we will forever lose sight of how we might be able to impact it.

It’s not the quiet ‘in’ the woods. Rather, it’s the quiet ‘of’ the woods. For I don’t want quiet to be ‘in’ me. Like the woods, I want it to be ‘of’ me. And I have found that few things can instill that in me like the woods can.

I skipped a stone on the glass-like surface of a sleepy lake this morning. And I watched the ripples roll out from the stone’s impact until their energy abated and they fell smooth as was the rest of the lake. And as it become smooth again, I thought that one of the greatest things I could ask of God would be to grant me the gift of a soul with such inner calm that it would smooth out every ripple from every stone that Satan could ever throw into it.

There’s something demanding about the stillness of the night; as if it knows our need for rest and demands that we have it. And if I impale the stillness with the incessant noise and raucous clamor of a mind ever ill at rest and in doing so I refuse to let the night bring what it does, the night will remain still but my soul will not.