Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “If your dream doesn’t scare you, it’s not big enough.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

2. “An inheritance is what you leave with people. A legacy is what you leave in them.”

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3. “Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.”

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4. “The road to success is paved with the hot asphalt of failure.”

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5. “I don’t need to paint a picture of what I want my life to look like. What I need to do is to study the picture that God painted of me so that I can better understand how to live out the splendor of the painting.”

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6. “I can only begin the process of saving myself when I surrender to the reality that I can’t. And what greater place to surrender that reality than to an infant who surrendered Himself to me so that I might surrender myself to Him.”

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7. “If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not.”

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8. “The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.”

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9. “Why should I care when no one else does? For the simple reason that the most critical time to care is when no one else does.”

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10. “I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.”

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11. “How we handle what’s ahead of us will be determined by what we learned from everything that’s behind us. For if we learned nothing, what’s behind us will be the exact same thing that’s in front of us.”

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12. “A focus on self-preservation is a choice for self-destruction.”

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13. “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.”

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14. “I am what no one else is, and in the hands of God I can do what no one else does. And if I dare set such a truth in motion I will change my world.”

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15. “I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do.”

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16. “I would rather have the favor of God than the blessing of a million men, for the favor of God takes the work of my hands and leaves a million men utterly astonished at the greatness of the feat.”

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17. “Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.”

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18. “The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.”

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19. “Without an ending there would be no beginning. And if I can’t imagine a life without beginnings, I can’t live without endings.”

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20. “There is no doubt that you will touch a life today. It’s just the manner in which you choose to do so, and how that will leave both yourself and everyone you touched once it’s over.”

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21. “Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can’t speak for itself, it’s not truth.”

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22. “Entitlement is the shovel that digs a grave of greed. And there are those of us who stand at the bottom of such a grave having thrown out the last shovel full of dirt, never realizing that the grave that we’ve dug is our own until the same shovel suddenly starts backfilling the hole.”

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23. “When I’m at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be ‘how do I get out of this hole?’ In reality, the main question might be ’how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it?”

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24. “Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.”

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25. “Packaged inside of every mistake there lays a great lesson. And while I don’t want to take the mistake into the New Year, I most certainly want to take the lesson that’s packaged inside of it.”

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26. “I am made in the image of God. Therefore, if I don’t know God I can’t know me.”

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27. “The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other.”

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28. “The man who waits to know everything is the man who never does anything.”

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29. “Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.”

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30. “There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences.”

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31. “What I allow into my head finds its way to my heart, which is a porthole to my soul. Therefore, I might be wise to consider the state of my soul, and then walk this process backwards.”

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32. “I am human. Therefore, I will fail you. God is not and will not.”

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33. “We can be seized with panic of the fall, or inspired by the potential that lies within the fall.”

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34. “Reliance on God is relying on the fact that to rely on anything else is to rely on nothing reliable.”

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35. “There is a deep dryness of the soul and all of the recalcitrant contrivances of man to quench his own thirst will bring not a single drop of moisture to those parched places, for God and God alone holds the water that satiates the soul.”

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36. “The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create.”

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37. “To lead is to serve. Conversely, to serve is to lead. And if either of these elements are removed from the equation, we’ll soon find that we’re doing neither.”

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38. “The greatest fool is not the person who has been fooled by the lies of others, despite how crafty and ingenious those lies might have been. Rather, it is the fool who has lied with such amazing dexterity and subtle finesse that he himself has come to believe his own lies. And this is the most forlorn and yet the most dangerous person that I can imagine.”

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39. “Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I’m laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear.”

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40. “It’s not that love lacks power. Rather, it’s that we’re too frightened to submit to a power that will demand vulnerability when we’ve invested the whole of our lives building walls.”

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41. “To hide is our insecurities telling God that what we fear is bigger than Who He is. And in this case, maybe we should shoot the messenger.”

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42. “Thinking that I’m a mistake is the real mistake.”

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44. “Prayer is one action where I lay aside my abilities to immerse myself wholly in God’s capabilities. And the liberation found in such an action is less about being engaged with God and more about being freed from myself.”

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45. “Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?”

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46. “Canceling’ a conversation never eliminates the opinion that you didn’t have the ability to refute.”

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47. “To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.”

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48. “We desire an exciting future, but the demand for familiar and comfortable tempers our steps to the point that often our steps are little more than stepping in place.”

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49. “Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment, and a dollop of intellectual acumen that’s blended clean and translucent.”

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50. “Easter says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning.”

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