Quotes by Counselors - Page 6

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
Hugh Prather
As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging.
Lundy Bancroft
Despite opinions to the contrary, restoring Godly values is the most progressive course of action that we could ever hope to take.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them and therefore breaking ourselves.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line,’ and we showed up with an eraser?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Let us be so taken up with the knowledge of God's goodness and the desire to fellowship with Him that our emotions are warmed and our outer man reflects great love. Although we must not seek emotional experiences for their own sake, we must not shun them merely because others misuse them or ignore God's instructions on worship.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Where am I?” you ask. Where you are is where the things you’ve denied worshipping have taken you.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply.
John Eldredge
To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my ‘timetable’ is too often a ‘table’ with two legs that won’t stand up no matter how much ‘time’ I give it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Oftentimes I think it is far better to listen for an answer, rather than talk out of an effort to create one.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
It is the restraint of patience that yields the magnificent in life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Too many of us view liberty as something that ‘just is,’ and too few see it as something that ‘is’ only because someone, somewhere was faced with the formidable reality that to keep liberty meant paying a stiff price.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
The greatest abuse that we perpetrate on liberty is our assumed right to it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I think we need to consider a radical rewrite of any form of patriotism that serves the individual at the expense of the community, as that is nothing more than patriotism to one's own small and solitary cause.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I would entertain the apparently fading idea that patriotism that serves the self is greed dressed in the garments of liberty and adorned with the fashion accessories of other associated patriotic notions.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to never hoard hoards.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
If I am so terribly limited as to view my handicaps as nothing more than lamentable limitations, then I have taken some of my greatest God-given assets and completely handicapped them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I would much prefer to enlarge your life by giving you the gift of my life, rather than gifting your life to material obesity with frivolous trinkets.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Christmas is a bold act of emboldening sacrifice and the most selfless gift ever granted the rebellious lot that we are.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the very places where society mistakenly says life stores its scraps. And I am constantly amazed that in the treasure trove that surrounds me, I stand in the company of so few.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort
Craig D. Lounsbrough
We’re constantly presented with opportunity, or the opportunity to create opportunity.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Opportunity is present is wreckage as much as it is in that which is wonderful. It’s not so much how it comes to us, but what we do with it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
It might behoove us to realize that isolation is the absence of all the senseless clutter, and all the incessant racket that would keep God from having ample room to show up and sufficient silence to be heard. Therefore, isolation may actually be the place where we are least isolated.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
We want a fresh start only because we didn’t sufficiently care for the last fresh start.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Death reminds us that life is a temporary privilege, not an endless right.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
It’s not about some principled debate as to whether I should focus on what I have, or on what I don’t have. Rather, it’s about being thankful that I have the privilege to enjoy the former, and the opportunity to contemplate the latter.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
The true sign of a robust and mature life rests in how many times that life has been knocked down, for to be incessantly knocked down and yet find oneself still standing means that someone had the resolve to get up that many times plus one.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Simply giving something ‘a shot’ is not giving something our ‘best,’ for our best is made up of as many ‘shots’ as it takes in order to be our best.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Nurturing words show that you believe in the other party's capacity to learn, change and grow. One's mind is like a computer. Every message you send goes into one of two files: discounting or nurturing. The file with the most data will direct how one sees and feels about himself or herself. Messages that nurture are based on unconditional love which must be worked at, especially if you come from a discounting family. You will need to rely on Jesus to fill the void in your life with His presence and help you learn how to love unconditionall like He loves us.
H. Norman Wright
Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power.
David W. Earle
I, like you, was not depraved or defected before birth but created to be magnificent, a wonderful and freeing realization - simple but explosive.
David W. Earle
We can be safe and live with other defined truths exemplified by a capital “T” or we can change and with our limited time experience truth with a small “t,” seeking our own understanding, which can change with new awareness.
David W. Earle
We don't need to pray to prove that we're properly pious or really serious. Instead, we pray because we are completely assured, and because the Father hears our prayers because they come to Him through the lips of His dear Son.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in whatever fashion we choose. Yet, seldom do we understand the power of the pen and the privilege of the page.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
If one wants to be loved and return it full score dagger of silence closes the door.
David W. Earle
Sometimes the grandest of all events are described in the poverty of a few simple words.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Blindness is a choice born of fear, nursed by complacency and groomed by comfort. And what I often don’t see in my blindness is that 'choice' evidences the existence of other options.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Heaven shows up all the time. But we plan our time so that we show up in other places.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
What this world needs now… more balloons and clowns
David W. Earle
Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity to pay for it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort.
Craig D. Lounsbrough