Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists.”

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202. “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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203. “The only reason I can’t jump in and engage life is that I’ve told myself I can’t. Yet I can’t helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could?”

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

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205. “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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206. “To live a fantasy is to avoid a life.”

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207. “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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208. “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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209. “Once I acknowledge that life owes me nothing, I have positioned myself so that I can begin to enjoy everything.”

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

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

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213. “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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214. “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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215. “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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216. “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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217. “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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218. “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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219. “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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220. “To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.”

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221. “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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222. “Stupidity is not intelligence ‘without’ wisdom. Rather, it’s intelligence ‘without the desire’ for wisdom, which is stupidity at its finest.”

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223. “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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224. “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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225. “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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226. “If I put others first, I will never find myself being last.”

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

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229. “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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230. “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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231. “If I’m my biggest fan, the odds are I’m my only fan.”

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

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234. “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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235. “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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236. “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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237. “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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238. “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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239. “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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240. “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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241. “It’s not about working hard. It’s about what we’re working hard about.”

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242. “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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243. “As I look at my life, I might ask “Who is the person that represents the greatest threat to me?” And if I happen to have a mirror around somewhere, I can rather quickly answer that question.”

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

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

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

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247. “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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248. “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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249. “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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250. “We often throw rocks not realizing that they’re going to land somewhere.”

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