Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “I have been driven to desperation more times than I can count. But it is here that I have been driven to the greatest inspiration that I can contain.”

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303. “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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304. “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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305. “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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306. “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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307. “Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.”

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308. “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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309. “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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310. “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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311. “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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312. “Love is a perpetual journey that is extraordinary because it will never find itself terminated by a destination.”

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313. “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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314. “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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315. “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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316. “Has it not ‘dawned’ on us that many of the things that we incessantly blame others for are actually things that our actions originally set in motion? Or, are we too weak to experience a ‘dawning’ of that sort?”

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

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

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

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

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323. “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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324. “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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325. “Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.”

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326. “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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327. “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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328. “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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329. “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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330. “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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331. “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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332. “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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333. “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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334. “Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth.”

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335. “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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336. “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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337. “With God, the setbacks of today are the precise ingredients that He needs to craft the victories of tomorrow.”

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

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339. “Oh that I had the opportunity to rethink so many of my decisions, for the pitfalls into which I have so frequently fallen were often dug with the shovel of those very decisions.”

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340. “If I so much as dare to intimately probe the reflection I see in the mirror, I am filled with the tormenting fear that I might be repulsed. God invites us to boldly probe the reflection in the mirror so that we might be released.”

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341. “To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.”

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342. “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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343. “Jesus came to give us life so unimaginably beyond anything that we could ever hope to conceptualize that wonder cannot help but be our constant companion.”

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344. “If you see a dandelion as a weed, you’ll spray it. If you see it as a flower, you’ll draw it close, turn it this way and that, and become lost in the colossal burst of slender golden petals that spew sunshine into the darkest of souls. And so, how many things have we sprayed that could have illuminated our souls if we would have let them be more than what we let them be?”

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345. “I watched a squirrel fall from a rather high branch. Upon hitting the ground, he bounced slightly, paused, shook himself vigorously and then immediately scampered back up to the very same place on the very same branch from which he’d fallen. There are some that might call that stupidity. Then there are others like myself who would call that tenacity. And while I generally have no interest in being a squirrel, in this particular respect I wouldn’t mind being like one.”

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346. “Stubborn’ and ‘stupid’ have far more in common than just their first three letters.”

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347. “Maybe we don’t ever feel that sweetly untainted and wholly majestic kind of love that takes every longing captive because we are hopelessly entangled in the illogical fear that despite all of love’s grand goodness, it might not be good enough to keep us safe.”

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348. “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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349. “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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350. “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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