Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes - Page 15

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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If your dream doesn't scare you, it's not big enough.
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Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.
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If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.
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The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely must not do is to blink first.
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Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.
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What is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.
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I’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.
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We can be seized with panic of the fall, or inspired by the potential that lies within the fall.
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Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.
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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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A life that chooses not to grow is a life that died long before it ever lived.
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To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear.
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Too often we make it more about what stands before us, and we miss all that stands within us.
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Ignorance is my refusal to think outside the box of my fears.
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Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth.
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Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.
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I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.
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What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I’d better figure out what I rubbing up against.
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Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.
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Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.
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It’s not about describing someone as that’s typically an attempt to make whatever they are comfortable for whoever we are. Instead, we may wish to skip the agenda of the description and embrace the wonder of the person.
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As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.
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Authentic love is deciding to live on a one-way street where all the arrows point down the street and not a single one of them point back up to where I’m standing.
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My definition of success is not based on achieving the impossible, but rather surviving the probable. And with a threshold that horribly low, simple survival cannot help but become my highest aspiration.
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Far too often the ‘things’ that men define as success do little more than successfully destroy the lives of the very men who achieve those ‘things.’ And while I must admit that there is an authentic element of success in all of that, it’s the kind of success that I would much prefer to successfully avoid.
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Despite the voices of the culture that would scream otherwise, victory is irreparably tied to the surrender of self. And that explains why so few are truly victorious.
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It’s not about inviting great things into our lives. Rather, it’s about accepting the invitation of great things to step out of our lives.
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The world screams, ‘Stay down, it’s safer.’ My soul screams, ‘So is being dead.
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The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.
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I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path.  For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible.
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The road to success is paved with the hot asphalt of failure.
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I hold in my hand a million ideas and more. But if I am puzzled as to why they have never leapt out of my hand and been birthed into the realities they were crafted to be, it is likely because the other hand has withheld the sacrifice that is necessary to birth an idea.
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I want to ‘think’ that I have all the answers. But if I ‘think’, I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I ‘think’ yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess.
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Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.
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To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.
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Do I make up some ‘god’ in my mind, or do I make up my mind to know God?
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The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.
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God’s genius is as wide as the cosmos, while by comparison our intelligence can find room on the head of a pin.
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Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.
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Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know.
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Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.
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Maybe the truth of it all is that we’re just too fearful to give our faith enough running room to realize that this precariously thin path that led us to the end of this life is dwarfed to obscurity by the infinitely vast byway that begins immediately on the other side.
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Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man.
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I must not imagine what is ‘not’ as a means of escaping what ‘is’. Rather, I must understand what ‘is’ and imagine how I can make it what it is ‘not’.
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With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way.
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It’s not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it’s a lack of faith within me.
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In the absence of faith, our dreams will move from feasible aspirations to implausible fantasy.
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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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True peace cannot be found in a ‘place’. Rather, it is found in a Person who can be with you in any ‘place’.
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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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The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to open my mouth. Therefore, maybe I should think about talking less.
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It is when I am cold, alone, bitterly forlorn and shuttered from all hope that you will see who I truly am. And my goal is that at those most precarious of moments, what you will see is Jesus holding you through my tears.
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My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals.
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Underneath the chaos there stirs a great plan. And it will be birthed only if I give it permission to do so because I have exercised the faith that it’s there.
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Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.
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Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I’m ignoring behind me. Instead, it’s most certain to drop it on top of me.
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Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.
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The worst of it is that while we continue to sink deeper into the muck and mire that we’ve created, in the very descent itself we ignorantly declare that in reality we are rising. And until desperation has crippled us sufficiently to confess the lie that we are lifting ourselves out of this mess, and until the panic of utter hopelessness has driven us to completely surrender all of the pathetic contrivances that we’ve fashioned that have put us there, we will never realize that God has readied solid ground that stands but a single step away
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The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.
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