3,025 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

Accountability is where the cowardice of my teetering self-image is wrangled into submission by the force of my ethics.

Truth is the thing that protects me from chasing the stuff that will rather quickly end up chasing me.

We can breathe in the sweet scent of a tepid summer’s meadow after the kiss of a warm rain, and in the very same moment we can stand utterly breathless underneath the expanse of untold galaxies that breech the very edges of the universe itself. Such are the privileges we enjoy because of God’s unimaginable imagination.

If I am bending the truth because it refuses to adhere to my agenda, I must realize that in the bending the truth has forewarned me that I am not crafting an agenda at all. Rather, I am crafting the trajectory of my own demise. And even though I adamantly reject such a notion as preposterous, it is a truth that I cannot bend.

Ethics and morals are not designed to keep us from walking off the cliff. Rather, they’re designed to keep us from creating the cliffs that we walk off of.

Ethics are not the things that kill my fun. Rather, they are the things that keep me from getting killed by the things that I thought were fun.

No value system formed by man will ever manage the men who formed it.

In our society, it appears that rules give us a more specific idea of the things that we want to break so that we can break them more efficiently.

To do something that’s just a ‘little bit less’ than the right thing is to do a whole lot of the wrong thing.