Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts.”

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

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254. “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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255. “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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256. “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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257. “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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258. “Much like life, you don’t complete a puzzle by throwing away the pieces.”

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

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261. “Sometimes what is said to be a gift may appear more of a curse only because the greatest gifts of all are the gifts that have enough disruptive force to break us out of everything that’s breaking us. And God loves us far too much not to give us exactly those kinds of gifts.”

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262. “I am thankful that in the giving we receive, and what we receive is the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we give is always bigger once we’ve given it away.”

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263. “The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.”

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264. “We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.”

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265. “The ‘night before Christmas’ was in reality the last night before a forever morning.”

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266. “I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup.”

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

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268. “If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place.”

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269. “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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270. “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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271. “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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272. “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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273. “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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274. “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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275. “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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276. “Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God.”

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277. “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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278. “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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279. “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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280. “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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281. “The world screams, ‘Stay down, it’s safer.’ My soul screams, ‘So is being dead.”

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

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284. “I often wonder if my imagination is one of God’s choicest gifts bestowed upon me to deliberately break me free from the frequent doldrums of my humanity.”

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285. “You are what you eat.’ And that fact applies infinitely more to your soul than it does your body.”

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286. “It’s never over. At worst, it’s just paused for a moment.”

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287. “I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me.”

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288. “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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289. “Many are rather easily able to contemplate the heroism of sacrifice, yet it is the few who are brave enough to move that notion from thought to action. And it is to those of you who made that move that my heart salutes and my soul marvels.”

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290. “Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.”

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291. “I pray that I am sufficiently stirred by the rumor of great things to seek the God who created this single thread that I am, and to marvel at a vision magnificent enough to cause this God to weave from this single thread a tapestry most resplendent.”

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292. “If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed a pay-off, I’m only assuming a sacrifice.”

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293. “Instead of the weight that sinks us, consequences are often the life preserver that saves us.”

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294. “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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295. “I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again.”

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296. “Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.”

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297. “God has hewn out a hidden path more glorious, tantalizing and adventuresome than the path trod by most, and it is a path seen only through the eyes of our wounds, felt solely through the heart of our losses, and singularly traversed by those with a limp in their step.”

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298. “With God, the setbacks of today are the precise ingredients that He needs to craft the victories of tomorrow.”

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299. “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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300. “Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking ‘muck’ across the floor of fact.”

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