{"author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough","total_quotes":950,"quotes":[{"text":"The greatest men stand on their values and pray on their knees.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["beliefs","christian","christianity","convictions","ethics","god","god-fearing","godly","integrity","leaders","leadership","morals","pray","prayer","praying","standing","supplication","values"],"id":388,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bless","blessing","dividends","earn","earned","endow","endowment","generosity","generous","gift-giving","gifts","give","giving","life","living","resources","sacrifice","selfless","selflessness"],"id":1762,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["calling","choices","death","die","greed","hunger","hungry","materialism","meaning","mission","purpose","selfish","starve","superficiality","value"],"id":2241,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The hallmark of great dreams is not their possibility but their impossibility, and the fact that it is the very notion of the ‘impossible’ that inspires us to go and accomplish them anyway.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["achieve","achievement","aspirations","dreams","goals","hopes","impossible","inspiration","inspire","possibilities","possible"],"id":3040,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bigger","doom","doomed","inferior","inferiority","minimize","person","reduce","sabotage","self","self-concept","self-esteem","underestimate"],"id":4683,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"If you think you can stand to know what you’re made of, try kneeling before God.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["god","identity","kneeling","made","made-of","personhood","self-analysis","self-discovery","stand","standing","submission","transparency","vulnerability","vulnerable"],"id":4939,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming us to endure the hard lessons that are likely to be forgotten by those who will follow us. And it is altogether reasonable that in order to avoid this repetitive trouncing, God graciously granted us memories.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["forget","forgetfulness","god","learn","learning","lessons","memorials","memories","remember","remembering","wisdom"],"id":5708,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Chilled ice tea that tempered tepid summer days lathered thick with humidity. Frothy hot chocolate that cut winter’s chill. Bedtime prayers that sent our fears scrambling in panicked flight. Golden bouquets of dandelions aromatically rich with the gift of summers scent. Family meals that wove yet another binding thread in and through the tapestry of those seated around the table. These are but the slightest sampling of the innumerable gifts my mother handed to this child of hers. And without them, my life would be impoverished beyond words to describe.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["family","gifts","giving","mom","mother","mother-s-day","parent","parenting","raising-children","sacrifice"],"id":7137,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["accept","agree","agreement","bottom","choice","choices","choose","choosing","create","created","decisions","dig","dug","follow","following","fool","foolish","foolishness","gullibility","gullible","hole","holes","invitation","invitations","life","pit","realization","realize","rock-bottom","wisdom","wise"],"id":8006,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["arrogance","calamity","christian","christianity","ego","ego-centric","egotistical","god","great","greatness","greed","jesus","jesus-christ","men","narcissism","restrain","restraint","sin","stubborn"],"id":8508,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":950,"pages":95,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}