Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “If I am selfish I might have achieved great things, but achieving great things out of my selfishness is one of the most devastating ways I can think of to fail.”

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102. “If I don’t learn how to think, then I don’t think I’ll ever learn.”

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103. “To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin.”

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104. “Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life.”

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105. “The power of restraint is the greatest display of power.”

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106. “To be an end in myself is to bring an end to myself.”

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107. “The fact that I’m using words doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m saying anything.”

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108. “I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it’s louder.”

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109. “Maybe consequences are dear friends in stealthy disguise.”

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110. “At the moment that everything goes dark, the sunset in front of us becomes the whole story. But if we find courage enough to wait until tomorrow morning, we will suddenly come to understand that in reality yesterday’s sunset was only half of the story.”

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111. “Jesus was born in a borrowed barn, he was buried in a borrowed tomb, and in-between it all he borrowed mankind’s sin with the intent of never returning it.”

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112. “To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear.”

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113. “Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.”

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114. “You will find great leaders pounding the pavement of life instead of pounding the pulpits of their agendas.”

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115. “I’m in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.”

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116. “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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117. “In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.”

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118. “Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?”

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119. “Underneath the chaos there stirs a great plan. And it will be birthed only if I give it permission to do so because I have exercised the faith that it’s there.”

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120. “The darkness makes everything disappear but it makes nothing go away.”

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121. “The problem with patience is that we are not patient enough to learn it.”

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122. “Every wall that would entrap me has a door that would free me. And I languish because the fear of freedom often leaves me preferring the familiarity of the wall.”

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123. “Sure, things die. Yet hard on the heels of every death there comes a birth. And if the life around me is being perpetually refreshed in such a relentless manner, why would I think that the life within me can’t have the same experience.”

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124. “It’s not about my reflection. It’s about what’s being reflected in my reflection. And frankly, I find that it’s easy to focus on the former, but the latter makes me want to smash mirrors.”

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125. “The question: ‘At what point is my ego finally satisfied?’ The answer: ‘At no point’. And that is the point.”

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126. “Easter is a marvelous affirmation of the genius of our design, but it is likewise the blunt acknowledgement that left to its own devices, the genius of our design will result in the destruction of our lives.”

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127. “To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.”

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128. “The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely must not do is to blink first.”

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129. “If in fact it’s not too late to realize that something’s ‘too late’, then there’s a good chance that it’s not.”

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130. “Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I’ve recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of those things, and a revitalized commitment to live the rest of my life never doing either of them again.”

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131. “Do not confuse stubbornness with tenacity, for the former is blind to reason while the latter has no reason to be blind.”

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132. “Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandiose things that we spend so much of our lives pretending to be, so that we can spend all of our lives being the exceptional person that we were actually created to be.”

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133. “If by growing up you mean allowing the adult within me to abandon the child within me, I have no interest in such a horrid proposition. If instead you mean to let each enhance the other at the exclusion of neither, I have every interest.”

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134. “God’s genius is as wide as the cosmos, while by comparison our intelligence can find room on the head of a pin.”

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135. “The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.”

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136. “We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we’ve crammed into our hearts.”

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137. “If you dare to dig deep enough, you will find a side of yourself that will dramatically enhance all the sides of yourself.”

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138. “If the light we have is continually engulfed by the darkness in a way that makes the darkness even darker, maybe we should think about getting our light from Someone else before it gets a whole lot darker.”

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139. “If I’m a slave to thankfulness I will never to be a slave to that which I’m thankful for. And the fact of the matter is that slavery to thankfulness is freedom from everything else.”

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140. “The absence of God in our lives is a result of our absence of reason, for if He is absent it is because we requested it. So, to have an absence of reason that results in the absence of God leaves me absent of both.”

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141. “The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.”

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142. “A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.”

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143. “I constantly pack my pockets full of worthless trinkets, and in such misguided gorging I leave my heart empty and my soul emaciated because I have forgotten everything but trinkets.”

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144. “To be strong I must first admit that I am weak. And that requires some of the greatest strength imaginable.”

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145. “The fool who thinks he’s god will rather quickly discover that he is not, which simply means that the person who was fooled by the fool is none other than the fool himself.”

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146. “Whatever I ‘align’’ myself with are the very things that will create a ‘line’ into my future.”

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147. “Truth even in the most whispered tones will always roar.”

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148. “The length of the fall is dictated by how far we had climbed. The outcome of the fall is dictated by whether we’re holding on to that which we’re climbing, or we’re letting God hold onto us.”

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149. “I am not the sum total of my accomplishments, for no matter how much I exhaust myself acquiring those accomplishments, the sum total of them will always be far too trifling to ever reflect my true value. My value rests in the fact that I am an accomplishment of God so incalculably valuable that He gave up Himself rather than give me up.”

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150. “When we surrender to apathy and expect the world to deliver everything to us, we deliver ourselves to a slow death and we sacrifice the best of our potential to the worst of our decisions.”

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