Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “I am amazed that without any hesitation whatsoever I can completely believe myself to be on a grand journey of massive vistas and bold ascents, only to find that they are nothing more than a figment of a frightened imagination that needed a journey but could not admit to the fear of actually taking one.”

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402. “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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403. “The greatest battles are not fought winning the war. Rather, they are fought keeping the peace.”

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404. “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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405. “If I am not at ‘peace’, then I can be altogether confident that I’ve placed a larger ‘piece’ of myself in the hands of someone other than God.”

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406. “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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407. “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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408. “Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.”

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409. “When we ask God to leave, He does so. And in the leaving, He takes everything with Him that is of Him. Consequently, that means that we invite in everything that is not of Him. And we might be wise to consider the nature of that invitation and if we really want to extend it.”

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410. “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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411. “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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412. “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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413. “What I do is the truest mirror of who I am.”

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414. “I have no interest in being safe. I do however, have every interest in being wise. The former is averse to going forward, while the latter is averse to anything but going forward.”

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415. “If a grave is empty, is it a grave? I wonder how Jesus would answer that.”

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416. “The shortest route between where I’m at and where I want to go is a straight line. However, if where I want to go in life is where I’m at, a line is unnecessary. In that case, so is just about everything else.”

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417. “Rhetoric can be easily recognized for it is delightfully sweet sounding but it is utterly void of sacrifice, which means it is utterly void of substance. Christmas is irrefutable evidence that God never engages in rhetoric.”

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418. “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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419. “We’re not dictated by the calendar, nor does the calendar sweep the obstructions from our lives when the second hand reaches midnight in the wee and fleeting hours of December. We can choose to move toward something new at any time.”

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420. “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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421. “The barrier to our future is often the very plans that we’ve created to get there.”

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422. “You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?”

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423. “My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.”

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424. “If we’re really to give ourselves the best of ourselves, we have to be honest with the worst of ourselves.”

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425. “Bobbing and weaving are methods and maneuvers by which we bend ethics, water down morals, and parse down values to serve our agendas.”

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426. “Although it would lead me to believe otherwise, fear has little interest in intimidating me. Rather, it much prefers to enslave me.”

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427. “We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.”

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428. “If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would never do to understand that I’m not as wonderful as I thought I was.”

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429. “Oh yes, I am frequently driven to an enraged frenzy by the blatantly crass actions of others. But to be painfully honest, that anger is much less driven by the reality of their actions and far more fueled by the realization that everything I am is everything that I hate in them.”

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430. “If you dare to go deep and touch the edges of your soul, in that encounter you will realize that you are not made for an end. Rather, there is something that says that we are the stuff of beginnings.”

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431. “In whatever battle we’re facing, we too often lose hope. And once we’ve lost hope we’ve not only lost the battle, we’ve lost everything else as well.”

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432. “When surrounded by the ashes of all that I once cherished, despite my best efforts I can find no room to be thankful. But standing there amidst endless ash I must remember that although the ashes surround me, God surrounds the ashes. And once that realization settles upon me, I am what I thought I could never be... I am thankful for ashes.”

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433. “The tomorrow in my mind is often what I wish today would have been had I not been held hostage to the fears that my yesterday left me with.”

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434. “It doesn’t take much intelligence to understand that obedience to greed can make us a slave to stupidity. Yet, I think that the power of greed is amply illustrated by simply taking note of how many intelligent people have chosen slavery.”

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435. “One of the most horrific things that you can do to yourself is to discount the abilities that you have to change yourself.”

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436. “Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.”

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437. “It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.”

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438. “An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.”

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439. “If I see brokenness only as brokenness, I will have broken the opportunity in my brokenness. And that is the greatest brokenness of all.”

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440. “Five of the most dangerous words I know: ‘What’s in it for me?”

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441. “If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance.”

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442. “We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.”

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443. “I might find myself standing in front of a wall, but without a wall there wouldn’t be a door.”

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444. “We recklessly attempt to disguise our ‘greed’ by dressing it in the garb of other nobler ideals such as ‘rights’ and ‘privileges.’ Yet, if we dare dress ‘greed’ in an authentic sense of thankfulness, greed will suffocate within the folds of that very clothing.”

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445. “If I only let God do for me what I do for me, I have made God me. And if I have made God me, I don’t have God or me.”

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446. “The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.”

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447. “Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.”

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448. “To be thankful when my world lays in ashes long gone cold is to finally understand that ashes are the raw materials from which God shapes dreams infinitely grander than whatever the ashes were before they were ashes.”

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449. “How do I begin to evaluate my worth? By realizing that some things can’t be assigned a value, and that my life is one of them.”

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450. “The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.”

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