Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Greed is the thief of the soul.”

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252. “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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253. “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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254. “Christmas is everything that God would do, and nothing that we would imagine Him doing.”

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255. “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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256. “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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257. “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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258. “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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259. “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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260. “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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261. “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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262. “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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263. “Instead of the weight that sinks us, consequences are often the life preserver that saves us.”

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264. “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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265. “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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266. “With God, the setbacks of today are the precise ingredients that He needs to craft the victories of tomorrow.”

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267. “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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268. “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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269. “Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking ‘muck’ across the floor of fact.”

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270. “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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271. “Whatever the depth of our darkness, God navigated it eons before it was dark. And whatever the duration of our nights, God was there long before it ever turned to night. Therefore, despite our frequent feelings to the contrary, there is no place we might be where God was not lovingly waiting for us an eternity before we got there.”

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272. “Incessantly demanding that I am given some ‘thing’ today may very well destroy the role that it was going to play in my life tomorrow.”

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

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

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275. “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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276. “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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277. “The ‘night before Christmas’ was in reality the last night before a forever morning.”

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

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280. “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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281. “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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282. “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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283. “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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284. “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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285. “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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286. “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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287. “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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288. “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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289. “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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290. “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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291. “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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292. “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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293. “To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.”

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

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296. “The world screams, ‘Stay down, it’s safer.’ My soul screams, ‘So is being dead.”

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

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298. “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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299. “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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300. “My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if perchance I choose to listen to the first two, I’m going to find myself so far off the ‘way’ that being lost becomes the ‘way’.”

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