Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “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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452. “Dreams must be chased, for if we wait for them to chase us we will live a life of waiting.”

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453. “If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance.”

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

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455. “We have heard it said that we need to ‘stand up and fight’. I would suggest that the most powerful way to do that is to ‘kneel down and pray’. The former might win the battle, but the latter will win the war.”

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

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457. “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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458. “One day I sat in the woods, which I found to be stunningly different than walking ‘through’ the woods. And in the sitting, the woods jumped to life with a spirited activity that I had scarcely ever seen or known to exist. And as I sat there turning this way and that in order to draw it all in, I thought that it was not the woods coming alive. Rather, it was me coming to a halt.”

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459. “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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460. “Life requires all the pieces, not just the ones that we tend to like.”

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461. “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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462. “If I really think that I’m the greatest thing since sliced bread, it’s probably because I’ve never eaten the sandwich.”

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463. “If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of ‘random happenstance’ with such methodical complexity?”

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464. “It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.”

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465. “I am amazed that without any hesitation whatsoever I can completely believe myself to be on a grand journey of massive vistas and bold ascents, only to find that they are nothing more than a figment of a frightened imagination that needed a journey but could not admit to the fear of actually taking one.”

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466. “Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.”

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467. “To be thankful when my world lays in ashes long gone cold is to finally understand that ashes are the raw materials from which God shapes dreams infinitely grander than whatever the ashes were before they were ashes.”

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468. “Will I someday pass into history having passed by God and therefore forfeited the opportunity to change my world and reap the blessing of being able to do so because I saw myself as inadequate to achieve either? And how long will it take me to realize that if I doggedly refuse to pass by God, my inadequacy is instantly irrelevant and I have in actuality begun to achieve these very things.”

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469. “Sacrifice is a passion that unleashes everything away from us so that it can be drawn into everyone around us.”

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470. “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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471. “When surrounded by the ashes of all that I once cherished, despite my best efforts I can find no room to be thankful. But standing there amidst endless ash I must remember that although the ashes surround me, God surrounds the ashes. And once that realization settles upon me, I am what I thought I could never be... I am thankful for ashes.”

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472. “I am thankful that I can be thankful, for if thankfulness did not exist my heart would be irretrievably imprisoned by the crazed twins of acquisition and possession, and my soul would exist as a forever slave to greed.”

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473. “Every life is a canvas and every interaction is a brush, therefore we’d be wise to consider how we handle the paint.”

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474. “It doesn’t take much intelligence to understand that obedience to greed can make us a slave to stupidity. Yet, I think that the power of greed is amply illustrated by simply taking note of how many intelligent people have chosen slavery.”

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475. “It is in the ‘exhaustion’ of getting to the goal that we too often forget the ‘elation’ of achieving the goal. And because that’s the case, too often we forfeit both.”

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476. “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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477. “In my desperation, I have finally discovered that the only way that I can begin to fill the gaping hole within me is to be thankful for what’s there, and not angry for what’s not.”

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478. “Could it be that questioning the existence of our purpose is in fact part of the process within which we become convinced that we have one?”

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

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480. “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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481. “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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482. “In the end, if we don’t have God we don’t have anything other than an end.”

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483. “If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would never do to understand that I’m not as wonderful as I thought I was.”

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484. “If you dare to go deep and touch the edges of your soul, in that encounter you will realize that you are not made for an end. Rather, there is something that says that we are the stuff of beginnings.”

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485. “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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486. “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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487. “Real, lasting closure is never secured through retribution or retaliation.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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