Top 100 Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes
#1. We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to live as if this thing we call life is filled with nothing but nothing.
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#2. Why in the world have we never found what we're really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won't accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need.
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#3. You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.
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#4. God's eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us.
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#5. Every tomorrow is an outcome of what I do today, and the beauty of it all is that today is happening all the time.
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#7. The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known.
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#8. The barrier to our future is often the very plans that we've created to get there.
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#9. Due north' on my compass is largely 'due' to the fact that in 'due' time I have been 'unduly' lax in recalibrating my compass. And I'm apparently ignorant enough to wonder why I'm lost.
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#10. However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be.
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#11. In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape.
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#12. To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up.
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#13. I am so often the architect of my own pain and the engineer of my own failures.
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#14. I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made.
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#15. What we're searching for will determine where we arrive, or if we arrive. And right in the middle of such risky choices, Christmas is God perfectly solving the problem by showing us what to search for and then bringing it to us.
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#16. What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps.
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#17. I am thankful that to be attuned to the needs of another attunes us to the world, and that if I stay attuned only to my needs I will always be a stranger to the world.
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#18. To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.
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#20. I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands.
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#21. If I scan the expanse of my heart and find it empty of everything except emptiness, it is because I 'poured' the whole of my passion into something other than God. And anything other than God will always be too 'poor' to be able to 'pour' back anything that can fill that kind of emptiness.
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#23. With God, what's possible will always be infinitely greater than what we believe to be probable. And we can be thankful that such a reality means that where we see a wall, God wishes to unveil a horizon.
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#24. The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen. And so, to rid myself of the latter is to reduce my concern about the former, which means I just unleashed my life.
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#25. To grasp love, I must grasp the fact that it is a creation of God and therefore it is forever beyond me. But the very fact that it is forever beyond me is the very thing that prompts me to forever pursue it.
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#26. My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.
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#27. It might behoove us to realize that isolation is the absence of all the senseless clutter, and all the incessant racket that would keep God from having ample room to show up and sufficient silence to be heard. Therefore, isolation may actually be the place where we are least isolated.
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#29. The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints.
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#31. To only see 'death' in death is to somehow assume that death itself is a barrier so abrupt that God Himself is halted by it. To see 'life' in death is to understand that death is a sprawling horizon to a new beginning that God created long before death ever thought to show up.
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#32. Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.
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#33. Although I've been thoroughly conditioned by pain to see it otherwise, an ending is nothing more than the backside of a beginning.
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#34. We might do well to take a look at what we've crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we've crammed into our hearts.
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#35. Too often we want to take stands to elevate us rather than elevate a cause.
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#36. Dreams must be chased, for if we wait for them to chase us we will live a life of waiting.
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#37. The present is too often squandered grieving the past or fearing the future, which makes the present nothing more than a cheap facsimile of what was or what will be instead of what it could be.
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#38. Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it has first looked after others. And help me to realize that anything less is not a heart.
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#39. Far too often we've let humanity become a commodity that serves us along the way, rather than an asset that enriches our journey.
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#40. 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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#41. Happenstance is the myth of the simple mind, for it is the deliberate genius of God that what appears entirely disjointed always reveals itself to be stunningly seamless. And it is in reflecting on such stunning ingenuity that our faith becomes seamless.
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#42. I often think myself to be so ingenious that I don't even realize that my own plans may actually be my own undoing. Therefore, I might be wise to realize that God's plans undo what I've done that's undoing me.
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#43. Fear left unrestrained always leaves us running 'from' something. Fear harnessed compels us to run 'to' something. And fear denied leaves us running in circles.
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#44. To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron's I can think of.
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#45. Thankfulness allows us to walk through a world inundated by opportunities and possessions, being slaves to neither.
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#46. I would suggest that our imagination is a tiny shard of God's infinite genius that we have within us simply because we were created in God's image.
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#47. The true sign of a robust and mature life rests in how many times that life has been knocked down, for to be incessantly knocked down and yet find oneself still standing means that someone had the resolve to get up that many times plus one.
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#49. I am likely to fail if I have determined the cost as too high or my intelligence as too low. Yet, if I think about it, the real failure rests in believing either of these to be true.
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#50. A parent holds within their hands the gift of a child to which they must expend the gift of themselves. And in such a monumental outpouring, the parent will lose both the child and the gifts given, but they will possess the far greater gift of knowing that they gave both.
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#51. Mediocrity is the companion of passivity and will not heed the call of great things. Courage is the companion of sacrifice and cannot help but heed the call of great things. And we are left of our own accord to choose one or the other.
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#52. When we surrender to a purposeless existence, we are surrendering to death way ahead of death's actual arrival.
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#53. When I'm at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be 'how do I get out of this hole?' In reality, the main question might be 'how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it?
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#54. Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.
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#55. We have forfeited our calling for the simple reason that we've ignored the God who says that the 'possible' is never bound by the 'probable,' and instead we've dutifully heeded the god of fear that incessantly says the 'possible' is anything but 'probable.
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#56. To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don't have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful.
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#57. The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other.
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#58. To enjoy beauty in the company of myself is to experience beauty bound by the limits of the sole person that I am. But, to experience beauty in the company of God is to experience beauty bound by the limits of Who God is, which is to experience beauty without limits.
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#59. The world screams, 'Stay down, it's safer.' My soul screams, 'So is being dead.
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#60. Is safety the 'dream' that will kill all of my other 'dreams?' For the truth is, no 'real' dream is safe.
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#61. Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.
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#62. Christmas was an intentionally intentional decision of the greatest sort ever devised that would result in the greatest cost ever conceived; God would die.
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#63. Our imagination is God's ingenious gift that hands us the privilege of romping and playing in realities that we can't see only because we've yet to create them.
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#64. I think myself so terribly 'clever' that the need for God is blatantly irrelevant. And all the while, in the rapidly growing mess that I'm 'cleverly' creating, I rather quickly begin to realize that the only thing that is relevant is His relevance.
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#65. Love means that we remain committed to loving even at the times when the emotion is so diminished or altogether missing that we can't feel it.
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#66. To believe in God is to wager everything on the person who created everything, and no mistake could ever arise out of that.
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#67. Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God's goal of the impossible.
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#69. Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them.
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#70. Without a beginning I am pouring the whole of my existence into the building of endings, while the cross and the resurrection declare that God is incessantly building beginnings from the collapse of endings.
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#71. To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it.
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#73. Many of us know nothing other than a directionless cadence, having left the footprints of our lives meandering down a road that's meandering itself.
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#74. Undoubtedly, our weariness is not based on the fact that we're running. Rather, our weariness is all too frequently based on the fact that many of the things that we're running from are the very things we should be running to.
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#75. Why does not the stunning evidence of the last miracle grant me confidence in the next crisis? Because my immaturity does not permit such a faith, my desperate prayer is that God would grant me a robust faith sufficient to trust Him not for one crisis, but for an eternity of miracles.
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#76. 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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#77. The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.
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#79. The hand of God is wonderfully evident at those times when He pens stories whose lines we ourselves are far too fearful to pen or whose imaginations are far too limited to envision. And I would unashamedly suggest that the Christmas story is that very story.
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#80. What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are readily available to everyone else but me? What really leads me to believe such an atrocious lie is that I don't believe in myself sufficiently to engage those opportunities in the first place.
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#81. If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey?
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#82. To 'pretend' is to say that I'm willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I'm unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren't true.
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#83. The issue is becoming so absorbed in positioning ourselves ahead of everyone else that life becomes nothing more than an endless strategy.
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#84. If we're missing life it's probably because we're expecting it to reveal itself to us, rather than realizing that life is revealed by us looking for it.
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#85. If I'm surprised at where I'm at, it's probably because I'm not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I've listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed.
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#86. If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in.
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#87. Maybe we need to reflect on the fact that the patience of God always outruns the impatience of our greed, and that His love always outweighs the greed that outweighs our love for Him.
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#89. Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need.
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#90. In the absence of faith, our dreams will move from feasible aspirations to implausible fantasy.
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#91. Forgiveness means that you will not allow a temporary event to have "forever" repercussions.
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#92. Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake.
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#93. Abundance is grasped by infusing our souls with the intoxicatingly liberating fact that life is a privilege, not a right.
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#94. What insanity propels me to incessantly invest in a world that never ceases to fail me? And what ignorance bewitches me so thoroughly that it keeps me from investing in a God who never ceases to be unfailing?
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#95. If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not.
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#96. Through the eyes of men an utterly irrational birth followed by a terribly improbable execution are miscues of the most pathetic sort. And all I can say is that I'm immeasurably thankful that I've been given access to the eyes of God.
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#97. If I am indeed my own god, I'd better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself.
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#98. If love is left untainted by our promiscuous meddling, and if it is left to be all that God designed it to be, God will use it to turn pain to our profit in His pursuit of our perfection.
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#99. It's not that I can't remember. It's that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it.
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#100. The most critical time in any battle is not when I'm fatigued, it's when I no longer care.
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