Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “An end is only a beginning in disguise.”

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

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

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

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

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107. “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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108. “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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109. “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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110. “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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111. “Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.”

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

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113. “Discerning the difference between a dictator and a leader is quite easy. The former cannot help but see ‘leading’ and ‘serving’ as stark contradictions that by their very nature are utterly incompatible. The latter can’t tell the difference.”

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114. “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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115. “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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116. “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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117. “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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118. “The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.”

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119. “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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120. “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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121. “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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122. “I am the greatest obstacle to my greatest dreams.”

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

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

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

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126. “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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127. “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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128. “Maybe consequences are dear friends in stealthy disguise.”

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

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

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

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132. “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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133. “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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134. “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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135. “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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136. “To be strong I must first admit that I am weak. And that requires some of the greatest strength imaginable.”

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

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139. “The sacrifice ‘of’ self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice ‘for’ self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.”

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140. “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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141. “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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142. “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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143. “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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144. “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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145. “Sometimes chaos is the very thing that deliberately shakes up our neatly ordered world’s in order to get us out of the neatly ordered ruts that have kept us stuck.”

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

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148. “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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149. “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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150. “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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