Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “If a grave is empty, is it a grave? I wonder how Jesus would answer that.”

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402. “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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403. “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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404. “My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.”

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405. “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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406. “Sometimes the best argument is the one that we refuse to have.”

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

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

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

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412. “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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413. “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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414. “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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415. “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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416. “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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417. “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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418. “I might find myself standing in front of a wall, but without a wall there wouldn’t be a door.”

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419. “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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420. “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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421. “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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422. “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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423. “We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.”

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424. “If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.”

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425. “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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426. “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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427. “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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428. “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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429. “The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.”

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430. “Will we abandon the dream to the brutality of the road that we must walk in order to bring the dream to reality? Or will we lay ourselves before God as the author of dreams and leveler of roads?”

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431. “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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432. “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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433. “Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that’s the case, we should get busy returning them.”

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434. “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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435. “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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436. “My life is too often driven by the fear of the next moment verses focusing on the privilege that I have the next moment.”

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437. “At the very point that I’ve taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I’ve cultivated quite a cemetery.”

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438. “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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439. “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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440. “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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441. “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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442. “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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443. “Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.”

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

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445. “Life is riotously oblivious to the concept of ‘giving up’. Rather, it’s only the forlorn muse of our frightened intellect that causes us to ‘pack it up’ when life is ‘picking it up’.”

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

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448. “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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449. “I think that it is infinitely wiser to accept the fact that we’re afraid, for in accepting our fear we are in no way granting it the power to crush us. Rather we are finally empowering ourselves sufficiently so that we can crush it.”

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450. “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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