Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “If we were to actually walk a mile in the other person’s shoes, there’s a good chance that we’d end up opting to live the rest of our lives walking barefoot.”

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452. “Can I do something?” is a far different question from “will I do something?” For the first is a question of ability, while the second is a question of ability rendered irrelevant by passion.”

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

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454. “When she was frustrated with us Mom used to say, ‘You weren’t born in a barn!’ But the way I sometimes acted often made me wonder if I’d been born in a barn that collapsed long before I had ever gotten out of it.”

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455. “If I don’t passionately desire freedom for all of my fellowmen, it’s likely that I haven’t been sufficiently freed from my selfishness so that I might see their captivity.”

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456. “It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we’re going to survive life.”

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457. “In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow that yesterday would have killed had I had my way.”

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458. “To be enriched in the giving, I must at the self-same time be completely depleted by it. For if I am not depleted, I have not given in the first place and therefore I will not be enriched in any place.”

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459. “We can breathe in the sweet scent of a tepid summer’s meadow after the kiss of a warm rain, and in the very same moment we can stand utterly breathless underneath the expanse of untold galaxies that breech the very edges of the universe itself. Such are the privileges we enjoy because of God’s unimaginable imagination.”

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460. “We must always remember that the darkness might hide everything, but it eliminates nothing.”

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461. “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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462. “Dreams must be chased, for if we wait for them to chase us we will live a life of waiting.”

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

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464. “Greatness demands that I understand that I am not nearly as big as I thought myself to be, but that I am capable of becoming far bigger than I ever imagined myself to be.”

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465. “Of all the ways that God could show up, He showed up by coming down. Therefore, despite the shortness of my reach it is never outside the length of His grasp.”

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466. “I am most thankful for what I don’t have, for had my life’s wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God’s treasures.”

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467. “The emptiness in our lives is due to the ‘absence of all the right things,’ and the ‘presence of all the wrong things.’ And if there’s some sort of silver-lining to be found in feeling empty, it’s that we’ve been successful at doing both of the above.”

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468. “If by ‘late’ we mean showing up on our time-table, then God is likely to be late most every time.”

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469. “Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.”

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470. “If it’s all meaningless then why are we discussing that it’s all meaningless, for such a conversation is of itself meaningless. So, maybe the fact that we’re having a meaningless conversation about life being meaningless evidences that it’s not.”

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471. “At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.”

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472. “It’s not so much about where we’re at, but where we want to go from where we’re at.”

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473. “I think that it is infinitely wiser to accept the fact that we’re afraid, for in accepting our fear we are in no way granting it the power to crush us. Rather we are finally empowering ourselves sufficiently so that we can crush it.”

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474. “Life is riotously oblivious to the concept of ‘giving up’. Rather, it’s only the forlorn muse of our frightened intellect that causes us to ‘pack it up’ when life is ‘picking it up’.”

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475. “My life is too often driven by the fear of the next moment verses focusing on the privilege that I have the next moment.”

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476. “At the very point that I’ve taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I’ve cultivated quite a cemetery.”

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477. “Will I live yearning for a world that I need not yearn for because the message of Christmas is entirely undaunted in its ability to handily penetrate and completely subjugate the very world that I doubt its ability to survive in?”

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478. “The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.”

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479. “Will we abandon the dream to the brutality of the road that we must walk in order to bring the dream to reality? Or will we lay ourselves before God as the author of dreams and leveler of roads?”

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480. “Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.”

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481. “Stubborn’ and ‘stupid’ have far more in common than just their first three letters.”

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482. “Sometimes the best argument is the one that we refuse to have.”

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

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484. “We are notorious for ‘running’ around self-righteously declaring our rights to this and to that. But if we were to reflect upon the millions who ‘ran’ across bloodied battlefields so that we would have rights to declare, I think we’d do a whole lot less declaring and a whole more appreciating.”

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485. “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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486. “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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487. “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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488. “However far I’ve come, it’s probably somewhere less than halfway of where I could be if I simply believed in myself.”

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

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

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492. “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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493. “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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494. “Undoubtedly, our weariness is not based on the fact that we’re running. Rather, our weariness is all too frequently based on the fact that many of the things that we’re running from are the very things we should be running to.”

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

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496. “We incessantly vacillate between what’s behind us and what’s before us depending on the current barometer of our courage and the ambivalent nature of our vision.”

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

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498. “It is nothing more than a mere handful of thoughtful words unfettered by tarnished agendas, tempered by wisdom, ordered by truth, and arranged into simple syntax that have empowered ordinary men to do utterly extraordinary things. And I am thankful that I am an ordinary man who loves words.”

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499. “We can’t sufficiently define love with our words. Therefore, the only option that we’re left with is to show it in our actions. And if our actions don’t show it, the words don’t matter. Neither does anything else.”

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500. “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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