Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “Too often we define love as something that we feel verses something that we give.”

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303. “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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304. “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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305. “The world screams, ‘Stay down, it’s safer.’ My soul screams, ‘So is being dead.”

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

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307. “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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308. “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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309. “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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310. “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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311. “It is inevitable that I will leave a legacy simply because I cannot walk through life without leaving footprints as I walk. Therefore, I would be wise to consider the path before I make the prints.”

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312. “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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313. “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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314. “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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315. “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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316. “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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317. “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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318. “More times than I’m willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I’m willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend.”

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319. “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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320. “Love is a perpetual journey that is extraordinary because it will never find itself terminated by a destination.”

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321. “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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322. “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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323. “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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324. “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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325. “Instead of the weight that sinks us, consequences are often the life preserver that saves us.”

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

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

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329. “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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330. “God is able to fix that which is broken so that what stands repaired is immeasurably greater than that which stood before it needed repair. Therefore, the most staggering brokenness conceivable is in reality the greatest opportunity imaginable.”

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331. “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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332. “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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333. “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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334. “A lack of imagination results in a lack of living.”

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335. “The problem with the ‘herd’ is that our voice is never ‘heard’.”

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336. “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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337. “Life is much like a river. I can’t determine where the river comes from or where it’s flowing to. But I can immerse myself in it as it’s flowing by me.”

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

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339. “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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340. “Too often what we’ve defined as our calling is in fact the strategy that we have crafted as a means of running from our calling.”

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341. “Every action is something temporary that gets carved into something permanent.”

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342. “Because we refuse to acknowledge something doesn’t mean that it’s not staring us right in the face.”

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343. “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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344. “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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345. “Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth.”

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346. “The worst thing that I can do is humanize God. The second worst thing that I can do is deify myself. And the best thing that I can do is to avoid both.”

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347. “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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348. “If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.”

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349. “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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350. “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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