Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.”

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202. “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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203. “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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204. “Once I acknowledge that life owes me nothing, I have positioned myself so that I can begin to enjoy everything.”

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205. “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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206. “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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207. “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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208. “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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209. “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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210. “To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.”

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

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

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214. “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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215. “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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216. “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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217. “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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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. “The most impoverished people of all are those who have everything but appreciate nothing.”

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

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

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

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223. “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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224. “Our fear of fear is often our greatest fear.”

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

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

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227. “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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228. “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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229. “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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230. “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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231. “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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232. “If I could be half of what my mother was, I’d be twice the man I am now.”

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233. “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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234. “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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235. “The myth around the ‘easy road’ is that it’s a road.”

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

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

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239. “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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240. “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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241. “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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242. “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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243. “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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244. “Much like life, you don’t complete a puzzle by throwing away the pieces.”

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

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

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

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

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