3,025 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

I don’t wish for a perfect life, for in doing so I will have discarded the tremendous opportunities for great good that lay hidden in the greatest bad.

Although I am convinced otherwise, what I ‘want’ empties me of all that I could ever need, while what I ‘need’ fills me with all that I could ever want. It’s just that I tend to have that all backwards most of the time, so I am empty all of the time.

Because you feel full doesn’t mean that you are.

I expend my days relentlessly attempting to design my life in a manner that is designed to meet the needs in my life. Yet, God did not design life to do that. Rather, He designed life to direct us to Him so that He could do that.

It’s not about being loved by people. It’s about loving them enough to do the right thing for them even though they may hate you for it.

The person next to you is probably doing the best they can. But if they’re not, try doing the best you can to help them do the best they can.

Greed grants us the illusion of fulfillment on the one hand, while it empties out the soul on the other. And if that’s the case, could it be that greed is a symptom of stupidity?

Lives are transformed in the solitude of those entirely unassuming moments where one life turns sufficiently away from itself in order to brush by another, and in the brushing it leaves that life forever better. And if I am privileged to have any legacy at all, let it be a million of these moments.

I don’t wish to please men. Rather, I wish to help them. And more times than not, the process of genuinely helping them may not necessarily please them.