Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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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252. “You are what you eat.’ And that fact applies infinitely more to your soul than it does your body.”

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

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254. “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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255. “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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256. “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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257. “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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258. “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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259. “Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.”

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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. “Every tomorrow is an outcome of what I do today, and the beauty of it all is that today is happening all the time.”

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

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

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

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266. “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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267. “Much like life, you don’t complete a puzzle by throwing away the pieces.”

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

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269. “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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270. “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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271. “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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272. “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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273. “We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.”

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

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275. “My prayer is that God would continue to love me enough to refuse to answer the prayers I’m praying that I shouldn’t be praying.”

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276. “Has my life been cheated by the shortness of the time afforded me, or is it possible that the greater part of my life has been saved for a time where there is no time?”

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277. “Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on.”

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278. “A consequence may be the very thing that saves us because it was the only thing loud enough to get our attention.”

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279. “Being our best is asking how can we take ourselves to the precipice of our own limits in any and every situation?”

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280. “What we build certainly might look like a refuge, but if it wasn’t designed by God it’s something more akin to a leaky tent in the middle of a category 5 hurricane on a Monday morning. Nothing about it is good.”

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281. “A lack of imagination results in a lack of living.”

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282. “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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283. “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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284. “The voice incessantly quelled in the chorus of human voices will always be the voice of God. And given a reality of this magnitude, I would be well advised to cease my babbling and encourage those around me to do the same.”

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285. “Wearing camouflage is based on the desire to blend in with an environment that we don’t blend in with. Therefore, if we’re wearing some sort of camouflage every day then we’re probably not happy with ourselves any day.”

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286. “Freedom is viewed as a ‘right’ to those who don’t yet understand that everything is a ’privilege.”

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287. “It’s not about changing the world, although that’s what we seem to rally around. Rather, it’s about changing ourselves for that is the seed from which changing the world sprouts.”

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

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289. “The world brazenly touts freedom as both the inalienable right and morally liberating justification to mindlessly play in the filth that lies all around me. And the slight bit of sanity that yet remains within me asks, ’what raging madness would prompt me to incessantly wallow in the very things that will eventually swallow me?”

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290. “The reason my life has wandered to nowhere is likely due to the fact that the focus of the moment has dictated the destination of my life, when the destination of my life should have been dictating the focus of the moment.”

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291. “I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.”

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292. “The greatest men stand on their values and pray on their knees.”

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293. “The ‘fact’ of my actions frequently collide with the ‘fiction’ of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?”

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294. “Because a door slammed shut, we assume that our dreams were slammed shut with it. Yet before we surrender to a closed door, it might be wise to take a moment and consider the fact that any dream is far too big not to have a couple of back doors.”

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295. “It is not the absence of hope. Rather, it is the absence of our faith in hope.”

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296. “I’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.”

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297. “To believe in the story of Easter is to believe that a wall is nothing more than a door in disguise.”

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298. “Without a beginning I am pouring the whole of my existence into the building of endings, while the cross and the resurrection declare that God is incessantly building beginnings from the collapse of endings.”

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299. “Sometimes we have to pretend that we don’t care in order to protect ourselves from the fact that we do. And the thing that we have to pretend the most is that this actually works.”

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300. “Of all the sermons that I heard at church growing up, I can’t remember a single message that was preached in any of them. But I can certainly remember the people who preached them.”

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