Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Our agenda is the lens through which we view the world that is in reality a blindfold through which we miss the world.”

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

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205. “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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206. “Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in the eyes of God we are worthy of a miracle.”

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207. “Despite my incessant desperation, I simply cannot paint the perfect picture within which I would wish to live out my life. And because I cannot, God picked up the brush of love, positioned the canvas of history and painted a manger.”

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208. “The Christmas story is penmanship of the most brilliant sort, where God crafted a beginning that would never be subject to an ending.”

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209. “Have I not yet discovered that the ashes of today enrich the soil of tomorrow?”

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210. “I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.”

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211. “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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212. “To live a fantasy is to avoid a life.”

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213. “A sunset is the end of a day now passed. Yet, for some reason we get caught in the reality of the descending dark verses the anticipation of a rising dawn.”

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214. “I think that there’s real wisdom in leaving the old year behind you as you step into the New Year. However, if you’re foolish enough to leave the lessons behind as well, it won’t matter that you left the old year behind because you’re going to repeat it all over again anyway.”

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215. “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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216. “Once I acknowledge that life owes me nothing, I have positioned myself so that I can begin to enjoy everything.”

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

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219. “The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to open my mouth. Therefore, maybe I should think about talking less.”

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

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222. “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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223. “What I have defined as a destination is most often the place I just happened to end up at. And where I just happen to end up at is not a destination in any sense of any word that I know. Rather, it is a life never lived because it was a life never planned.”

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224. “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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225. “We can walk to ‘nowhere’ and think that ‘nowhere’ is ‘somewhere.’ For such are the roads paved by men. Yet, the humility of a manger and the magnificence of a cross constructed a road to the ‘everywhere’ that forever abolished the ‘nowhere’ of men.”

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226. “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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227. “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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228. “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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229. “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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230. “To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.”

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231. “I can choose to see a horizon as yet another indistinct place that I can barely make out from where I’m standing, or I can see it as the backside of a glorious tomorrow. And the attitude that I choose to embrace will dictate every horizon that I get to pursue.”

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232. “It is no secret that the greatest treasures are found in the most remote, inaccessible and difficult places where we must pursue them with great energy and even greater risk. It’s the same with our lives.”

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233. “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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234. “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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235. “If I put others first, I will never find myself being last.”

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

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238. “Only God understands how incredibly far we’ve fallen, and only God understands how incredibly far we can rise. And only we can determine if we’re going to wallow in the mediocrity that is born of the refusal to understand either.”

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

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

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242. “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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243. “A real journey will demand that I put my shoes on, but then I’ve got to stand up and walk. And if I forget the second part, the first part doesn’t matter.”

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

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245. “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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246. “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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247. “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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248. “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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249. “It’s not about working hard. It’s about what we’re working hard about.”

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250. “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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