Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “If truth be told, life is so remarkably rich that we will always owe life a debt that we have no means to pay. With that being the case, maybe the biggest thing that I owe life is an apology for the assumption that life owes me.”

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352. “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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353. “To ‘live’ is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived.”

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

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356. “I cannot confuse the ‘battle’ with the ‘war’. For out of my weakness I am bound to lose a battle, but out of God’s strength I am guaranteed to win the war.”

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

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358. “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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359. “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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360. “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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361. “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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362. “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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363. “Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on.”

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

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

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

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369. “Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of light.”

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370. “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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371. “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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372. “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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373. “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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374. “Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.”

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375. “Sometimes we have to surrender to something if we’re eventually going to have victory over it.”

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376. “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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377. “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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378. “A lack of imagination results in a lack of living.”

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

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380. “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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381. “Our fear frequently takes the reality of a situation and mythologizes it. And in the end, the ‘myth’ becomes the monster while the ‘fact’ remains the short guy behind the curtain.”

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

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

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

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387. “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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388. “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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389. “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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390. “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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391. “Not everything is meant to be explained. However, everything is meant to be experienced. And we would be wise to remember that attempting to explain everything often destroys the experience of all things.”

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392. “I’m owed nothing, but I’ve been gifted with everything. As such, I owe everything the commitment that I will never find myself treating ‘everything’ as ‘nothing’.”

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393. “God’s absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy.”

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394. “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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395. “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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396. “The greatest battles are not fought winning the war. Rather, they are fought keeping the peace.”

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397. “Thanksgiving is not some formulaic action based on a tedious ledger that neatly tallies everything I have received so I can determine if being thankful is warranted or not. Rather, it’s appreciating the fact that I have already received the privilege of living life which in and of itself will fill the whole of my ledger for the whole of my life.”

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398. “The most dangerous thing we can do with intelligence is to let it speak without being both chastised and informed by wisdom. For if we let it speak without the constraints and forbearance of wisdom, we will destroy ourselves. And in doing so, we will be so caught up in our ‘intelligence’ that we won’t even realize that it’s ‘us’ that’s killing ’us.”

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399. “The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.”

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400. “If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself is an unacceptable risk.”

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