Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “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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452. “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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453. “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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454. “We must always remember that the darkness might hide everything, but it eliminates nothing.”

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455. “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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456. “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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457. “Dreams must be chased, for if we wait for them to chase us we will live a life of waiting.”

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

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460. “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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461. “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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462. “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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463. “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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464. “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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465. “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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466. “Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.”

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

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469. “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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470. “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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471. “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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472. “Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?”

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

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474. “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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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. “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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478. “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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479. “Evil will have unleashed the fullness of itself at the point that it becomes convinced that it is not evil.”

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

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481. “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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482. “The closest enemy ship might be your own.”

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

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

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

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487. “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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488. “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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489. “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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490. “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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491. “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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492. “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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493. “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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494. “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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495. “Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.”

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496. “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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497. “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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498. “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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499. “We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.”

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500. “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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