Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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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52. “Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I’m laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear.”

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53. “Defense mechanisms protect us. Fortresses isolate us. And far too often we begin with the former and end up constructing the latter.”

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54. “Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment, and a dollop of intellectual acumen that’s blended clean and translucent.”

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55. “It’s not that love lacks power. Rather, it’s that we’re too frightened to submit to a power that will demand vulnerability when we’ve invested the whole of our lives building walls.”

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

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57. “Every tomorrow is an outcome of what I do today, and the beauty of it all is that today is happening all the time.”

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58. “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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59. “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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60. “I can tell you who I am, but I’d rather have you watch who I am.”

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61. “Sometimes taking a moment to do ‘nothing’ is the best ‘something’ that we can do.”

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62. “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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63. “If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.”

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64. “Today is non-refundable. Therefore, I’d better live it in a manner that a refund is unnecessary.”

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65. “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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66. “What I see behind me is what I’m going to create in front of me. Therefore, I might want to take a long hard look out of the rearview mirror before I drop it into ‘drive’.”

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67. “We can only climb the mountains because there’s a valley that makes the mountain a mountain.”

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68. “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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69. “Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that’s the case, we should get busy returning them.”

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70. “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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71. “So might it be that whatever I’ve lost in my life is what creates the space for whatever I’ve yet to gain in my life. Therefore, without loss I am without gain.”

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72. “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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73. “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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74. “Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we’ve given them permission to be impossible.”

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75. “Vision is not the ability to see. Rather, it is the willingness to see.”

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

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77. “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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78. “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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79. “The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.”

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

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81. “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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82. “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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83. “It is in imposing my expectations on others that I birth my greatest frustrations.”

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84. “Minutes remain the same length whether they are held against the span of years or minutes themselves. Yet, when minutes are held against themselves, they seem so terribly brief. Therefore, we’d be wise to celebrate life before minutes are all that’s left.”

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85. “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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86. “Character is holding to our integrity when everyone around us is holding on to everything except their integrity and pressing us to do the same.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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97. “Life is not random, for randomness is simply purpose that we’ve yet to discern.”

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

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

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