3,025 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

I can read a thousand words and have every one of them drift past my heart without touching any part of it. Or I can read a handful of words and have them seize my heart with such a grip that I will be forever held fast. Such is the difference between the art of writing and the lesser task of arranging words.

When you sit down with a good book, you will stand up as a better person.

If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

Too often ‘reality’ is the excuse that we use to abandon our dreams, when in fact ‘reality’ is simply the thing that’s sitting there waiting to be overcome by our dreams and all the while wondering why it’s taking so long.

We really can’t afford to live our lives walking in some sort of introspective darkness as if the darkness is the only thing that we can walk in.

The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.

If we sacrifice the opportunity to sacrifice, what we have in fact sacrificed is the opportunity live.

Without the height of the peak and the depth of our commitment to scale it, we will spend the whole of our lives viewing our dreams from the bottom looking up.

If I so much as dare to intimately probe the reflection I see in the mirror, I am filled with the tormenting fear that I might be repulsed. God invites us to boldly probe the reflection in the mirror so that we might be released.