Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I want to be a voice for ‘good’ and for ‘God,’ for if I presume to possess the former without the latter there will be nothing good in what I say.”

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202. “In our frenzied attempts to catch up with life, we run right past it. Once we have run past it, what we are in reality attempting to catch is ourselves.”

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203. “In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.”

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204. “The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.”

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205. “Undoubtedly, failure is growth in pain’s disguise.”

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206. “Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself into believing that this limp god of mine is the true God, and then construct the entirety of my life on this flamboyantly fictional character. Possibly the most devastating realization of all is when the real God shows up, and in the showing up all of this come crashing down.”

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207. “Our fear of fear is often our greatest fear.”

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208. “When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.”

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209. “If truth is relative, then it’s cousin is anarchy.”

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210. “Greed is the thief of the soul.”

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211. “If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of freedom and not feel a thing. And my most solemn prayer is that I will never be this.”

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

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213. “Thanksgiving is a posture of both mind and heart where we recognize how terribly fortunate we are, and how much we’ve been blessed despite the fact that we probably haven’t been the blessing that we should have been.”

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214. “Christmas is everything that God would do, and nothing that we would imagine Him doing.”

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215. “To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I’m standing up.”

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216. “The worst denial of all is being in denial that we’re in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that’s not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.”

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217. “My focus is not on the flood that surrounds me. Rather, my focus is on the God Who surrounds the flood.”

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218. “While many might disagree with me, I do not believe that it’s a small step from independence to entitlement and then anarchy. Rather, I think it’s something more like a slight shuffle on the edge of a steep cliff.”

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219. “To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.”

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220. “We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts.”

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221. “No matter the height of them, faith takes the mountains that stand in front of us and makes them the road that passes under us.”

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222. “By far, an ending is the most direct path to a beginning.”

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223. “Without as much as a single question, legions of geese lift themselves to autumn’s skies, obediently heeding the distant call of southern horizons. And I think that it’s less the magnificence of their trek, and more about the humility of their obedience to the trek. For if I was left with a single prayer to utter, it would be to be more like them.”

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224. “Loving those who hate us means wantonly setting the stage and orchestrating the situation in a way that’s sure to result in a production of great personal calamity. But to not love them is an even greater calamity.”

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225. “I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.”

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226. “Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.”

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227. “Darkness is the absence of light. Therefore, darkness is always fleeing from where light is and scurrying off to where it is not. So why am I running from something that’s always running from something?”

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228. “If the road behind me is not growing ever longer, then it is likely that the feet underneath me are not moving any longer. And if my feet are not moving, I have somehow, somewhere traded this most glorious journey for lesser endeavors.”

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229. “The most impoverished people of all are those who have everything but appreciate nothing.”

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230. “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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231. “I can tell you who I am, but I’d rather have you watch who I am.”

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232. “Do I forget, or do I refuse to remember?”

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233. “Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things ‘now’ or wait until ’then.”

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234. “Abundance is not what you hold in your hand. Rather, it’s what you have in your heart. And until we realize this, both will feel empty.”

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235. “Today is the opportunity that tomorrow is hoping we take advantage of.”

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236. “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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237. “Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.”

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238. “The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.”

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239. “Fear tells me that while there might be a host of people who wish to stand beside me in times of crisis, the tangled wreckage is sometimes so enormous that the best of their efforts leave them stranded at a great distance. And standing desperately alone surveying the carnage that holds all others a bay, God suddenly taps me on the shoulder, leans over and whispers, ’how about a little demolition?”

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240. “One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I’ll die with should I never use it.”

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241. “I want what I want! And I want to find what I want in the exact place, at exact time that I want it to be there. And maybe that’s why so many of us go ‘wanting’.”

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242. “Legacy is not what will be left of us once we’ve gone through our life. It’s what’s left of us that’s left standing once life’s gone through our life.”

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243. “The true test of a father’s legacy is that it rests in every life except his own, for to leave a true legacy we must divest ourselves of everything so that the investment in our families can be everything.”

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244. “I can wait for life to shape me in whatever manner it chooses. Or I can shape me to make life whatever I choose.”

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245. “If I assume the ‘truth’ to be negotiable based on whether or not it serves my agenda, then my agenda has become my ‘truth.’ And the ‘truth’ of the matter is, when I do this I’ve chosen to take a treacherous path through some very deep woods where neither path nor woods exist.”

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246. “Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I’m ignoring behind me. Instead, it’s most certain to drop it on top of me.”

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247. “After digging a thousand wells of my own and stumbling upon a thousand others dug by the hands of thirsty men, I have yet to realize that the only well that can satiate every thirst is the one that men will never dig.”

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248. “Christmas does not invite you to something that happened in history. Rather, Christmas is God inviting you to something that’s already shaping your eternity.”

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249. “The world screams, ‘Stay down, it’s safer.’ My soul screams, ‘So is being dead.”

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250. “To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.”

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