Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “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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303. “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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304. “The visionless will declare a vision as the pathetic muse of the weak-minded, or some dreamer having fallen victim to the lamentable fiction of their own dreams. And for those with vision, we must remember that it is the criticism of the vision that lends credibility to the fact that it is not only a vision, but a worthy one.”

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305. “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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306. “Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God’s beginning.”

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307. “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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308. “The message of Christmas is a message of hope when all other such messages created by men can do nothing more than be hopeful.”

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309. “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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310. “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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311. “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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312. “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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313. “With God, the setbacks of today are the precise ingredients that He needs to craft the victories of tomorrow.”

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

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

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316. “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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317. “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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318. “The world screams, ‘Stay down, it’s safer.’ My soul screams, ‘So is being dead.”

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

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320. “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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321. “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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322. “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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323. “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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324. “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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325. “Too often we define love as something that we feel verses something that we give.”

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326. “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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327. “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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328. “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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329. “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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330. “Despite the voices of the culture that would scream otherwise, victory is irreparably tied to the surrender of self. And that explains why so few are truly victorious.”

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331. “Life is such that beginnings and endings are neither. For in fact, they perpetually lay the groundwork for the other.”

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332. “The child you hold in your arms is your gift to a future that you will not see. Therefore, we must turn a blind eye to ourselves and selflessly pour the best of ourselves into our children while rigorously sifting out the worst of ourselves. And once we are utterly spent by such daring gestures, we will shockingly discover the resulting emptiness as astonishingly filled.”

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

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334. “The roads of life are paved wide and skirt the mountains. And these very roads are choked with a steady stream of pathetically pedantic travelers who in reality have no intent of traveling. And if we are to discover the real travelers, much less join them, we will find them out on precarious paths that defy the roads and scale the mountains.”

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335. “We look around us and we find ourselves confused as to why the world has fallen into such deep darkness. And standing in this descending darkness, what we need to realize is that the farther we move from God, the darker everything gets. And no light of man can illuminate that kind of darkness.”

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336. “If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.”

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337. “Even if yesterday was wildly successful, I still don’t want to repeat it. Rather, I want to build on it.”

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

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339. “To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine.”

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340. “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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341. “It’s not dying I’m afraid of. It’s dying without ever having lived that I’m afraid of.”

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342. “With God, the impossible is not an obstacle but an invitation.”

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343. “Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I ‘see’ is but a single thread and solitary shard of what ‘is’, for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.”

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

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345. “Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the ‘gift of life’ if we ever hope to be thankful for the ‘gifts’ of life.”

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346. “Being lost without knowing that we’re lost means that we have no idea that we need to be found. And if you have a hard time believing that that’s just about as lost as you can get, watch the news.”

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347. “Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less?”

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348. “Far too often, the best thing I can have in my hand when someone makes a promise is a really big broom so that I can sweep up the broken pieces.”

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349. “Decisions are the privilege we’ve been granted to have a hand in penning the script of our lives. And in the writing, the question is not the availability of the paper or the pen. The question is the wisdom to use them rightly.”

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350. “If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I’m sitting in.”

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