Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “God beckons me to exhilarating adventures that are without number, beyond all conceivable boundaries, and effortlessly eclipse the furthest reaches of my imagination, all while I sit languishing in stifling adventures of my own limited creation.”

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452. “Christmas was a response of the choice of mankind to take its existence into its own hands and chart its own course, liberally scripting its own ethics, crafting its own moral system, and choosing to believe that it was the creator and therefore master of its fate. Christmas is a response to mankind reeling off the pages of history and splattering the blood of lives and generations wasted along its free-wheeling course.”

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453. “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.”

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454. “While our roads might be markedly different, the fact that we are both walking a road intimately unites us. And if we each dare to step onto each other’s road for even a moment, we can profoundly enhance the journey for both of us. And so, might I invite you over.”

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455. “My stupidity need not be the end of me, for if I surrender my stupidity to God it will in fact become the beginning of me.”

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456. “Real, lasting closure is never secured through retribution or retaliation.”

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457. “If God had to build a door, it’s because we erected a wall.”

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458. “It is in the act of admitting our weaknesses that we are showing our strength.”

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459. “The message of Christmas is a message of hope when all other such messages created by men can do nothing more than be hopeful.”

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460. “I project my limits on God when faith would say that I should be projecting His limitlessness on me.”

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461. “Hate is the baseness of our humanity rising against that very humanity.”

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462. “We forget that ‘old’ in age typically does not mean ‘old’ in terms of relevance.”

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463. “Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know.”

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464. “In reality, is being sedentary a choice to run from our calling by not running after it?”

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465. “We have equated an end with the idea of ‘termination’ when in fact an end is the beginning of ’germination.”

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466. “My vision of what God can do is nothing more than a fleeting glance of the backside of the ‘possible,’ while God is inviting me to the forefront of the ’impossible.”

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467. “The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.”

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468. “Too often, my vision stops at what I’ve become rather than what I was created to be.”

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469. “Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the ‘gift of life’ if we ever hope to be thankful for the ‘gifts’ of life.”

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470. “It is the fool who declares ‘I am ascending the summit,’ while he’s toddling around in the ditch.”

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471. “The carnage is not the end of something. Rather, it can be the beginning of everything. And the manner in which the carnage serves us will depend on the manner in which we see it.”

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472. “I must not reflect on what I’m doing. Rather, I must do one of the most difficult things imaginable and reflect on ‘why’ I’m doing it.”

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473. “If I’m not certain where I’m at and if I’ve not quite determined where I want to go, I’ll eventually find myself in neither place.”

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474. “Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them.”

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475. “If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.”

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476. “We opt to be seen as ‘right’ in the eyes of everyone else, rather than doing what’s ‘right’ in light of the situation.”

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477. “The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me.”

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478. “The greatest battles are not fought winning the war. Rather, they are fought keeping the peace.”

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479. “With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea.”

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480. “To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.”

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481. “If I see God as nothing more than a caricature of history or imagination I cannot do anything less than make myself my own ‘god’. And once I realize that in doing so my rendition of being a ‘god’ is embarrassingly inferior to the very caricature I am mimicking, I quickly come to realize that maybe the only thing that can be ‘god’ is a God. And if that is the case, I suddenly find myself hounded by the stunning reality that God is not a caricature.”

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482. “Running’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do the latter doesn’t replace the fact that I’m constantly doing the former.”

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483. “Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?”

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484. “I suppose that the greatest blindness is to assume the absence of blindness.”

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485. “To admit that I am weak is the exercise of strength.”

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486. “So might it be that whatever I’ve lost in my life is what creates the space for whatever I’ve yet to gain in my life. Therefore, without loss I am without gain.”

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487. “Looking up, I observed one solitary leaf that remained on a spindly branch of an old oak tree. And as winter’s frigid winds blew against it twisting it this way and that, I thought that it was either committed to holding on as long as it could or it was afraid to let go.”

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488. “I wonder what life would have been like if I would have taken all that time I spent wondering what life would have been like, and instead used that time to make it what I wanted it to be like.”

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489. “In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it’s not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.”

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490. “In whatever battle we’re facing, we too often lose hope. And once we’ve lost hope we’ve not only lost the battle, we’ve lost everything else as well.”

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491. “Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.”

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492. “I think that we should be less focused on the crisis and more focused on what we can learn from the crisis. For the biggest crisis of all is the crisis of repeating the crisis.”

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493. “If I have not been both soothed by love and on the opposite extreme left devastated by it, I will never understand its power nor respect its majesty.”

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494. “In the thoughtlessness of my incessant hurry, I have made God an ‘addendum in’ my life verses the ‘agenda of’ my life. And what I need to hurry up and realize is that with these priorities positioned as such, what I am hurrying to is my own demise.”

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495. “So, there’s this hornet’s nest. And there’s this long stick. And then there’s me. How I walk away from all of this will depend on whether I realize that some things go together and some things don’t no matter how hard you try.”

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496. “We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.”

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497. “Any place that I ‘run to’ most often turns into a place that I have to ‘run from’, unless of course that place is God.”

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498. “An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made out of my past, not the elimination of that mess.”

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499. “Once faith dies, the death of hope follows hard on its heels.”

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500. “I am always trying to figure God out so that I can figure Him in. But after a while I figure that I should just let God be God, and figure that He’ll figure it all out anyway.”

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