Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “If there were no beginnings and if there were no endings, we would have the absence of inertia and the presence of stagnation.”

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202. “Many times I have walked the road in the solemn hush of a winter’s snowfall. And it seems that the inexpressible peace of winter tenderly afoot in moments such as these is God whispering to my soul that the peace that now surrounds me can be the peace that lives within me. I only have to quit trying to create the snow and let Him bring the snowfall.”

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

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204. “My rather arrogant attitude deludes me into believing that my ability to understand something is the criteria for its legitimacy. And if there’s one thing in my life that I don’t understand yet I allow to be legitimate, thinking this way would most certainly be it.”

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205. “If I put others first, I will never find myself being last.”

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206. “Might I wish to be all that I can be and not fall victim to all that I fear to be.”

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207. “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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208. “Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.”

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

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210. “Sacrifice is not setting oneself up to die. It is liberating oneself to live.”

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211. “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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212. “Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.”

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213. “We often throw rocks not realizing that they’re going to land somewhere.”

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214. “It’s not about working hard. It’s about what we’re working hard about.”

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215. “When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ’fall.”

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216. “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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217. “If all we see are cinders and ashes, all we see is ‘what was’ at the expense of what the cinders and ashes are preparing to be.”

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218. “If you’re still alive, you’re alive because something is not yet accomplished. As such, your goal should not be to spend your life waiting for the end of your life. Rather, your goal should be to realize that there’s something urgent to do with the rest of your life.”

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219. “Spring never looks at what the previous year has left it to work with. For you see, the issue is not the amount that’s left. The issue is the privilege to have any amount.”

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220. “If I could be half of what my mother was, I’d be twice the man I am now.”

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221. “Be confidently assured that any ‘gods’ that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them.”

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222. “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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223. “Maybe it’s an issue of being unable or unwilling to realize that we can actually impact things sufficiently to change things, rather than seeing ourselves as being exiled to some distant side line of life where we can do nothing more than sheepishly root for a life that’s far too far away to touch.”

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224. “Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.”

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225. “Most promises were broken before they were made.”

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226. “To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.”

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227. “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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228. “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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229. “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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230. “Undoubtedly, failure is growth in pain’s disguise.”

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

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233. “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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234. “Our fear of fear is often our greatest fear.”

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235. “To forgive is to refuse to contaminate the future with the errors of the past.”

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

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237. “If I’m my biggest fan, the odds are I’m my only fan.”

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

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

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241. “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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242. “Too often fantasy is not a rich elaboration of life designed to enhance our existence, rather it is our pell-mell escape from life with the intent of exiting this existence. And the most imaginative fantasy of all is to somehow think that I can do that in the first place.”

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

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244. “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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245. “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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246. “When the world does its level best to devalue me in ways that are nothing short of brutal, all it does is evidence my value. For why would it expend such massive amounts of energy attempting to destroy something that’s not there?”

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247. “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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248. “Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort.”

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249. “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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250. “The myth around the ‘easy road’ is that it’s a road.”

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