Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “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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452. “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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453. “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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454. “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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455. “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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456. “Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.”

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

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

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

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460. “Oh yes, I am frequently driven to an enraged frenzy by the blatantly crass actions of others. But to be painfully honest, that anger is much less driven by the reality of their actions and far more fueled by the realization that everything I am is everything that I hate in them.”

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461. “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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462. “Although it would lead me to believe otherwise, fear has little interest in intimidating me. Rather, it much prefers to enslave me.”

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463. “We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.”

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464. “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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465. “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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466. “One of the most horrific things that you can do to yourself is to discount the abilities that you have to change yourself.”

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467. “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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468. “The tomorrow in my mind is often what I wish today would have been had I not been held hostage to the fears that my yesterday left me with.”

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469. “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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470. “Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.”

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471. “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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472. “If I see brokenness only as brokenness, I will have broken the opportunity in my brokenness. And that is the greatest brokenness of all.”

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473. “An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.”

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474. “Five of the most dangerous words I know: ‘What’s in it for me?”

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

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477. “If I only let God do for me what I do for me, I have made God me. And if I have made God me, I don’t have God or me.”

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478. “I might find myself standing in front of a wall, but without a wall there wouldn’t be a door.”

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479. “We recklessly attempt to disguise our ‘greed’ by dressing it in the garb of other nobler ideals such as ‘rights’ and ‘privileges.’ Yet, if we dare dress ‘greed’ in an authentic sense of thankfulness, greed will suffocate within the folds of that very clothing.”

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480. “The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.”

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481. “Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.”

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482. “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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483. “How do I begin to evaluate my worth? By realizing that some things can’t be assigned a value, and that my life is one of them.”

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484. “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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485. “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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486. “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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487. “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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488. “Too often, my vision stops at what I’ve become rather than what I was created to be.”

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

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

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

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492. “To ‘stop and smell the roses’ we must first believe that there’s a rose garden out there somewhere. And in this jaded world of ours, the refusal to believe in gardens leaves most of us ref of roses.”

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

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494. “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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495. “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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496. “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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497. “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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498. “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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499. “In the end, if we don’t have God we don’t have anything other than an end.”

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500. “The yardstick that we frequently use to determine if something can be restored is based on the handful of inches that we bring to the process, when God shows up with an infinite amount of miles.”

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