Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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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352. “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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353. “I see everything outside of me through the lens of everything that is inside of me. Therefore, before I look at the world outside I’d be wise to look at the lens inside.”

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354. “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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355. “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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356. “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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357. “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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358. “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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359. “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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360. “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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361. “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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362. “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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363. “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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364. “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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365. “Life is such that beginnings and endings are neither. For in fact, they perpetually lay the groundwork for the other.”

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

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367. “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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368. “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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369. “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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370. “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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371. “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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372. “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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373. “Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on.”

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374. “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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375. “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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376. “With God, the impossible is not an obstacle but an invitation.”

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

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

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381. “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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382. “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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383. “Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.”

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

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385. “The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.”

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386. “What’s the purpose in all of this if there’s not a purpose in all of this?”

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387. “If I’m not certain where I’m at and if I’ve not quite determined where I want to go, I’ll eventually find myself in neither place.”

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388. “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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389. “A god of the ‘possible’ is no God.”

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390. “If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that where I get knocked down is all about where life begins, and has nothing to do with where it ends.”

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391. “When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.”

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392. “It’s not the size nor the power of the ocean that amazes me. Rather, it’s the way that something so powerful and immense can repeatedly caress a beach with such tenderness and never tire of doing it.”

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393. “A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.”

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394. “To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.”

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395. “Without the height of the peak and the depth of our commitment to scale it, we will spend the whole of our lives viewing our dreams from the bottom looking up.”

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396. “If a father does not altogether embrace a life of uncompromised sacrifice as the core of all principles by which he nurtures his children, he is a father by birth only and no power on earth can ever or will ever make that sufficient.”

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397. “We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be.”

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398. “If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.”

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399. “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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400. “It was when the sun gently slipped off the backside of the horizon and slowly drew the light of the day in it’s train that everything went quiet. And before the assorted choruses of crickets and spring peepers rose to greet the night, nature nodded at a day well done. And regardless of whether my day had come with rain or sunshine, I find few things as healing as lifting my soul above my circumstances and bringing the day to a close by nodding at a day well done.”

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