Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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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402. “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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403. “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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404. “Maybe the reason that I always need to rest is that I’m constantly trying to create a place where I can rest. And once I rest in the fact that I can’t create a place like that, maybe I’ll finally look for the God who already has.”

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405. “What I do is the truest mirror of who I am.”

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

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408. “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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409. “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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410. “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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411. “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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412. “The barrier to our future is often the very plans that we’ve created to get there.”

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413. “Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.”

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

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415. “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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416. “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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417. “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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418. “The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.”

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

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

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

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423. “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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424. “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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425. “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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426. “Five of the most dangerous words I know: ‘What’s in it for me?”

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

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

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

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431. “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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432. “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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433. “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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434. “The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.”

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

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436. “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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437. “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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438. “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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439. “The greatest battles are not fought winning the war. Rather, they are fought keeping the peace.”

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440. “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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441. “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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442. “The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.”

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

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445. “In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it’s not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.”

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

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447. “The yardstick that we frequently use to determine if something can be restored is based on the handful of inches that we bring to the process, when God shows up with an infinite amount of miles.”

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448. “Ignorance is bliss’ only if you’re ignorant enough to believe that that’s where bliss comes from.”

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449. “I am thankful that I can be thankful, for if thankfulness did not exist my heart would be irretrievably imprisoned by the crazed twins of acquisition and possession, and my soul would exist as a forever slave to greed.”

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

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