Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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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52. “Hold your tongue and live your life, for it is in the way that you live that you speak the loudest.”

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

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54. “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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55. “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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56. “The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.”

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

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

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60. “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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61. “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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62. “I would much rather ‘build up’ your faith than ‘play on’ your fears.”

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

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

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66. “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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67. “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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68. “Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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75. “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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76. “I spent a lifetime in a garden one afternoon.”

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

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78. “We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in whatever fashion we choose. Yet, seldom do we understand the power of the pen and the privilege of the page.”

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

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80. “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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81. “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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82. “Greed are the handcuffs and gratitude is the key. Sadly, sometimes we prefer wearing the cuffs to finding the keys.”

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83. “If you want to completely destroy a child, all you have to do is mold them into your vision of what you want them to be. If you want to completely liberate a child, all you have to do is grow them into the person they were created to be. The former cannot see God in the child. The latter can see nothing less.”

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84. “My greatest hope regarding the future rests on the mistakes I’ve made in the past, for those are the most effective things I’ve got to build with.”

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85. “Don’t pay attention to the size of the mountain in front of you. Rather, think about what the view from the summit is going to be like.”

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86. “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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87. “Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.”

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88. “Starting over is opportunity informed by failure, which is opportunity made intelligent.”

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

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90. “Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.”

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91. “Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?”

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92. “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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93. “I would rather die by my convictions than die by the culture that defies them.”

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94. “Today I must look in the mirror and be thankful for the person who I find staring back at me. For although the reflection is terribly imperfect, and I know that full well, God created it with enough room that one day it would be perfect. And if there is nothing else I can find to be thankful for, let me begin here.”

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95. “In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.”

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96. “You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.”

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97. “Every ending will meet its own end, for every ending is destined to be swallowed up by a beginning.”

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98. “Intelligence without wisdom is a like a car without a steering wheel. You can drive it as long as you don’t consider steering part of driving.”

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99. “If I get up just one less time than the number of times I’ve been knocked down, I have done one of the most devastating things possible; I have halted my life at that very spot.”

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100. “Jesus was buried in a borrowed tomb because He was planning on returning it to its rightful owner after a short weekend.”

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