Top 500 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes (2024 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. “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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404. “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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405. “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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406. “It is inevitable that I will leave a legacy simply because I cannot walk through life without leaving footprints as I walk. Therefore, I would be wise to consider the path before I make the prints.”

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

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

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409. “I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again.”

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410. “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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411. “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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412. “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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413. “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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414. “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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415. “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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416. “Decisions are the privilege we’ve been granted to have a hand in penning the script of our lives. And in the writing, the question is not the availability of the paper or the pen. The question is the wisdom to use them rightly.”

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

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

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419. “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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420. “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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421. “If I’m my biggest fan, the odds are I’m my only fan.”

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

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423. “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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424. “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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425. “Sometimes the best argument is the one that we refuse to have.”

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

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428. “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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429. “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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430. “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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431. “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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432. “Five of the most dangerous words I know: ‘What’s in it for me?”

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433. “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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434. “Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.”

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435. “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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436. “Sacrifice is a passion that unleashes everything away from us so that it can be drawn into everyone around us.”

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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. “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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439. “Every life is a canvas and every interaction is a brush, therefore we’d be wise to consider how we handle the paint.”

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440. “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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441. “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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442. “It is in the ‘exhaustion’ of getting to the goal that we too often forget the ‘elation’ of achieving the goal. And because that’s the case, too often we forfeit both.”

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443. “We are notorious for ‘running’ around self-righteously declaring our rights to this and to that. But if we were to reflect upon the millions who ‘ran’ across bloodied battlefields so that we would have rights to declare, I think we’d do a whole lot less declaring and a whole more appreciating.”

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444. “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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445. “In my desperation, I have finally discovered that the only way that I can begin to fill the gaping hole within me is to be thankful for what’s there, and not angry for what’s not.”

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

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

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449. “In the end, if we don’t have God we don’t have anything other than an end.”

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450. “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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