Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “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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104. “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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105. “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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106. “Starting over is opportunity informed by failure, which is opportunity made intelligent.”

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107. “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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108. “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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109. “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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110. “In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.”

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

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

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113. “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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114. “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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115. “Maybe consequences are dear friends in stealthy disguise.”

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

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

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

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

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121. “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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122. “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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123. “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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124. “If I don’t learn how to think, then I don’t think I’ll ever learn.”

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

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126. “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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127. “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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128. “Life is not random, for randomness is simply purpose that we’ve yet to discern.”

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129. “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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130. “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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131. “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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132. “To be an end in myself is to bring an end to myself.”

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

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

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136. “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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137. “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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138. “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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139. “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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140. “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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141. “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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142. “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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143. “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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144. “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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145. “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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146. “The question: ‘At what point is my ego finally satisfied?’ The answer: ‘At no point’. And that is the point.”

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147. “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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148. “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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149. “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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150. “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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