Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.”

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52. “To hide is our insecurities telling God that what we fear is bigger than Who He is. And in this case, maybe we should shoot the messenger.”

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53. “Commitment is a promise to a cause. Being non-committal is a promise to catastrophe.”

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54. “When it comes to ‘poking the bear,’ the length of my stick will never be long enough to outrun the consequences of either the bear or my stupidity.”

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55. “Prayer is one action where I lay aside my abilities to immerse myself wholly in God’s capabilities. And the liberation found in such an action is less about being engaged with God and more about being freed from myself.”

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56. “Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?”

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57. “Canceling’ a conversation never eliminates the opinion that you didn’t have the ability to refute.”

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58. “You cannot spew a tangled web of lies, negativity, and division without having those very things turn on your own soul. Therefore, let us remember that the most wounded among us are often those who have done the most wounding.”

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59. “People are like books. The cover might give you a clue regarding the story inside, but if you don’t open the book two stories are lost.”

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60. “Easter says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning.”

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61. “Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we’ve given them permission to be impossible.”

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62. “The problem that I think I have with God is often not a problem at all. Rather, it is most frequently a tired misperception where I have made God what I need Him to be in order to justify my rejection of Him.”

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63. “How many beginnings were held at bay because we refused to let an ending be an ending?”

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64. “You have a God. You have a mind. You have a will. And somewhere you have a passion. And if you have enough faith to believe in the first and exercise the rest, you can achieve the impossible.”

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65. “A ‘victor’ is a ‘victim’ who decided to do something about the thing that victimized them other than complain about it.”

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66. “Being lost but not realizing that we are lost is probably the most lost that any one human being can ever get.”

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67. “The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.”

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68. “Easter is a time where we are reminded that conclusions in man’s mind are beginnings in God’s plan.”

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69. “Life is like a chess game; you have to think three moves ahead. Sadly, many people jump ahead and then wish that they could make six moves backwards.”

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70. “Running from God creates the illusion that I’m actually creating space between myself and that from which I’m running. And I’m not certain that I want to run with that illusion.”

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71. “Autumn calls the forest to rest, to exhale in a flood of colors rubbed to a fiery warmth on the hearth of both hill and plain before nodding off to a winter’s slumber. And what better way to turn the page of a season than to celebrate it in a manner such as this?”

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72. “Today I felt the first brush of autumn as in these waning days of summer it gently leaned over an expectant horizon. And it is in having lived summer to the fullest that autumn is positioned to fill me to the fullest. And I think that if we would engage all of the differing seasons of our lives in a manner such as this, the appreciation of ‘what was’ would be magnified a hundredfold by the anticipation of ’what is yet to be.”

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73. “Don’t be afraid of what you can’t do. Rather, be afraid of the way that you defined ’can’t.”

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74. “I would much rather ‘build up’ your faith than ‘play on’ your fears.”

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75. “It is the length of the journey that ripens the joy of the outcome.”

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76. “This morning, the birds were singing before the sun came up. And in thinking about that, it amazed me that they would readily sing into the darkness without demanding that the light show itself first.”

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77. “God emptied out that first tomb so that He could turn around and empty out me.”

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78. “At the point that the ‘privilege’ to possess something becomes more valuable to us than the ‘thing’ that we possess, it is then that we have finally come to deserve both.”

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79. “Ethics might be optional, but the consequences are not.”

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80. “The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.”

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81. “A sunset is nothing more and nothing less than the backside of a sunrise.”

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82. “Tomorrow’ is the thing that’s always coming but never arrives. ‘Today’ is the thing that’s already here and never leaves. And because that’s the case, I would much prefer to invest in today than sit around waiting for an arrival that’s not arriving.”

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83. “Too often we confuse ‘discovering who we are’ with ‘discovering who we want to be.’ And if we commit to the former it will take care of the latter.”

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84. “Blame is the coward’s solution to his fear of accountability.”

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85. “To be found is to be exposed. No wonder so many of us are still lost.”

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86. “Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?”

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87. “Greatness is the born of ordinary men who decided to work extraordinarily hard.”

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88. “An end is only a beginning in disguise.”

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89. “Kicking the can down the road implies that we’re accepted the galling reality that whatever it is that we’ve avoiding, it’s something that’s not going to go away; at least on its own.”

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90. “We lose the precious sense that an end is only a beginning in disguise.”

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91. “The difference between ‘wanting’ something and ‘having’ something is ‘doing’ something.”

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92. “I spent a lifetime in a garden one afternoon.”

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93. “Let me be strong, for to be anything else is to languish in the abyss of compromise and to descend to places of impoverishment so destitute that they will squelch my soul and crush my heart.”

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94. “Simple men do great things simply because they do not purport to see anything grand in their efforts. They only see the responsibility of living life in keeping with the gift that it is. And that is greatness indeed.”

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95. “Who you are is too vast to be captured by the reflection of a mirror, classified by the state of your attitude, or categorized by the opinions of others. Therefore, if any of these are defining you, you have yet to be defined.”

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96. “If I see only my bias, I have surrendered to a single myopic lens through which to view the world. If I dare to surrender my bias, I will spend the rest of my life seeing the world and throwing away lenses.”

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97. “Of course love is blind; it keeps me blind to myself.”

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98. “Greed are the handcuffs and gratitude is the key. Sadly, sometimes we prefer wearing the cuffs to finding the keys.”

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99. “Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.”

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100. “An ending is something like a caboose on a train that just pulled out so that there’s room for the train that’s now arriving. The problem is, we forget that a caboose is only one part of one train.”

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