Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes - Page 13

An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made, not the elimination of it.
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The only thing I have to wait for to change my life is my attitude.
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I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.
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Discerning the difference between a dictator and a leader is quite easy. The former cannot help but see ‘leading’ and ‘serving’ as stark contradictions that by their very nature are utterly incompatible. The latter can’t tell the difference
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We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong.
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The sacrifice ‘of’ self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice ‘for’ self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.
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The world brazenly touts freedom as both the inalienable right and morally liberating justification to mindlessly play in the filth that lies all around me. And the slight bit of sanity that yet remains within me asks, ‘what raging madness would prompt me to incessantly wallow in the very things that will eventually swallow me?
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Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to an existence without walls? And if this is so, do I realize that I am the warden of prison that I created in which I myself am the prisoner?
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Sometimes what is said to be a gift may appear more of a curse only because the greatest gifts of all are the gifts that have enough disruptive force to break us out of everything that’s breaking us. And God loves us far too much not to give us exactly those kinds of gifts.
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If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of freedom and not feel a thing. And my most solemn prayer is that I will never be this.
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Rare are the handful of principles that incessantly drive us to stand even when we face the stark realization that we will likely perish in the standing. And rarer still is the person who will surrender all to protect such principles. Yet, the rudimentary principles of freedom and liberty pristinely untarnished by greed and selfishness took captive the hearts of simple people and raised this nation up from untamed wilderness and unchecked tyranny. And let us all be warned that without renewed adherence to these principles, we will rapidly return this nation to untamed wilderness and unchecked tyranny.
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It is at the precise moment that I take something for granted that I have placed myself in the precarious position of losing that very thing. And if that thing I risk losing is liberty, taking it for granted is foolishness of the most foolish sort.
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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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Independence that has declared its ‘independence’ from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy.
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That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.
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To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all.
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Sometimes the very things that we’re expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let’s die so that we can live.
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One of the greatest lies is to believe that we don’t have value. One of the greatest mistakes is to act on that belief. And the greatest liberation is found in looking at the cross of Christ and realizing the enormity of the lie.
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We work hard to believe that our actions really don’t affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much.
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I don’t know that love is freedom. Rather, I think it’s more a force to preserve freedom.
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The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.
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It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.
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Rights’ are ‘privileges,’ and if I am arrogant enough to demand the former without respecting the latter I will lose both.
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The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom.
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Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under it’s own weight and we with it. Forgiveness is freedom multiplied against the Cross until it flies under it’s own liberation and we with it.
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I can be absolutely assured that any endeavor of which God is not a part is most certainly a step backward. And any step backward is at least two steps behind where I’d be if I’d have gone forward in the first place.
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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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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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Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming.
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Men can dig wells, but they can’t create water.
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What is an adventure, I might ask? And in the asking, I might begin to understand that my adventures are sorely limited to the confines of my lackluster imagination. Therefore, an adventure of the most robust and wild sort must be constructed by an unlimited imagination. And unless I am mistaken, only God has an imagination like that.
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In many instances, the failures of my greatest schemes ultimately lead to the fulfillment of my greatest successes. Therefore, God will allow our most cherished dreams to perish so that we might turn and seek out His most cherished plans.
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You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.
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To even begin to embrace the magnitude of God’s vision, we must first embrace our vision as being nothing more than vision by definition.
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Dreams must be chased, for if we wait for them to chase us we will live a life of waiting.
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An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made out of my past, not the elimination of that mess.
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When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.
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Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away.
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Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.
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I am the greatest obstacle to my greatest dreams.
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Because a door slammed shut, we assume that our dreams were slammed shut with it. Yet before we surrender to a closed door, it might be wise to take a moment and consider the fact that any dream is far too big not to have a couple of back doors.
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Sadly, I put my dreams to bed long before they ever had the chance to get tired.
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You are silent now who once stood on battlefields ravaged by destruction unimaginable, holding in those desperate places the line of freedom for others you would never know, and who would never know you. And being one of those you never knew, I would give all I have to clasp your hand one single time, look into eyes that witnessed the bloodied carnage that results when freedom refuses to bow to chains of any kind, and simply say 'thank you.
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With God, anything that stands against you will always be inferior to what resides within you.
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A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.
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To judge someone is to say that I have the right to define who they are, verses understanding that God has handed me the priceless privilege of discovering who they are.
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I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.
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Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.
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An idea without sacrifice, regardless of grand it might be, will never be anything more than an idea.
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Once I realize that the tune I’m whistling in my head is the theme that’s driving my heart, I suddenly realize that the most important question I can ask is, “What are the lyrics?
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If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.
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However far I’ve come, it’s probably somewhere less than halfway of where I could be if I simply believed in myself.
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If I’m perplexed by the fact that I’m constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head I’ve determined that being lost serves a greater purpose than being found.
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I do not walk into the storm unless I have been called into the storm. For the former is arrogance and the latter is obedience.
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I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong.
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Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I’m laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear.
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Because I have ‘chosen’ to see something as impossible, there’s a good chance that it’s not.
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Is the goal I’ve set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?
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Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore, apathy survives solely on lies and can be completely abated by truth.
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I often ask to what place I am running, for if I am unable to identify that place it is likely that I am running in a circle of the most circular sort.
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