Wisdom Quote by Craig D. Lounsbrough — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If a grave is empty, is it a grave? I wonder how Jesus would answer that.”

“I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.”

“Christmas is the door that was ingeniously designed for walls that were not built for doors.”

“I am compelled by the idea of a God Who would not demand that I ascend to some state of elevated divinity that I am entirely incapable of achieving. Rather, I am caught up in a God Who was audacious enough to descend beneath me so that I might be raised above me.”

“Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.”

“Death evidences the fact that life itself is far too irresistible to let death be anything but a common in a sentence that has no periods.”

“You ought to know, you were my best friend. You were. I know you loved me. I loved you.”

“Art is anything you can imagine in heaven. Science is everything you may need in hell.”

“I didn’t arrive late; I arrived when my path made room for me.”

“All I do know is that so long as I'm asleep I'm rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thoughts, the food that takes away hunger, the water that chases away thirst, the fire that warms the cold, the cold that cools the heat and, in short, the universal coinage that can buy anything, the scales and weights that make the shepherd the equal of the king and the fool the equal of the wise man. There's only one drawback about sleep, so I've heard – it's like death, because there's very little difference between a man who's asleep and one who's dead.”

“Conceptual knowledge is so valued in our world. Yet in many cultures wisdom is equated not with knowledge but with an open heart.”