Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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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402. “Will I live yearning for a world that I need not yearn for because the message of Christmas is entirely undaunted in its ability to handily penetrate and completely subjugate the very world that I doubt its ability to survive in?”

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

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405. “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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406. “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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407. “My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.”

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408. “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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409. “Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.”

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

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

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

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413. “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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414. “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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415. “A god of the ‘possible’ is no God.”

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416. “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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417. “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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418. “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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419. “A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.”

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

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421. “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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422. “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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423. “We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be.”

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424. “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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425. “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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426. “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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427. “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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428. “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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429. “If we were to actually walk a mile in the other person’s shoes, there’s a good chance that we’d end up opting to live the rest of our lives walking barefoot.”

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430. “Can I do something?” is a far different question from “will I do something?” For the first is a question of ability, while the second is a question of ability rendered irrelevant by passion.”

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

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432. “When she was frustrated with us Mom used to say, ‘You weren’t born in a barn!’ But the way I sometimes acted often made me wonder if I’d been born in a barn that collapsed long before I had ever gotten out of it.”

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433. “If I don’t passionately desire freedom for all of my fellowmen, it’s likely that I haven’t been sufficiently freed from my selfishness so that I might see their captivity.”

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434. “It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we’re going to survive life.”

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435. “In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow that yesterday would have killed had I had my way.”

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436. “To be enriched in the giving, I must at the self-same time be completely depleted by it. For if I am not depleted, I have not given in the first place and therefore I will not be enriched in any place.”

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437. “We can breathe in the sweet scent of a tepid summer’s meadow after the kiss of a warm rain, and in the very same moment we can stand utterly breathless underneath the expanse of untold galaxies that breech the very edges of the universe itself. Such are the privileges we enjoy because of God’s unimaginable imagination.”

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438. “We must always remember that the darkness might hide everything, but it eliminates nothing.”

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439. “I wonder what life would have been like if I would have taken all that time I spent wondering what life would have been like, and instead used that time to make it what I wanted it to be like.”

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440. “Dreams must be chased, for if we wait for them to chase us we will live a life of waiting.”

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441. “To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.”

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442. “Greatness demands that I understand that I am not nearly as big as I thought myself to be, but that I am capable of becoming far bigger than I ever imagined myself to be.”

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443. “Of all the ways that God could show up, He showed up by coming down. Therefore, despite the shortness of my reach it is never outside the length of His grasp.”

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444. “I am most thankful for what I don’t have, for had my life’s wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God’s treasures.”

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445. “The emptiness in our lives is due to the ‘absence of all the right things,’ and the ‘presence of all the wrong things.’ And if there’s some sort of silver-lining to be found in feeling empty, it’s that we’ve been successful at doing both of the above.”

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446. “If by ‘late’ we mean showing up on our time-table, then God is likely to be late most every time.”

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447. “Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.”

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448. “It’s not so much about where we’re at, but where we want to go from where we’re at.”

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449. “If it’s all meaningless then why are we discussing that it’s all meaningless, for such a conversation is of itself meaningless. So, maybe the fact that we’re having a meaningless conversation about life being meaningless evidences that it’s not.”

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450. “At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.”

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