Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes - Page 5

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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I want to stand on the belief that great things are the product of ordinary people who are made great when they stand.
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Greatness demands that I understand that I am not nearly as big as I thought myself to be, but that I am capable of becoming far bigger than I ever imagined myself to be.
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We want greatness, but we prefer it tamed and on a leash short enough for us to control it, yet long enough to allow it to retain some remote yet diminished flavor of greatness.
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Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature; that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first.
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It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character.
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The love hidden within is always greater than the hate displayed without.
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To love those who hate us is to refuse to borrow their hatred.
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Hate feeds on itself, while love will always find itself fed.
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Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.
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It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.
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Easter is a time where we are reminded that conclusions in man's mind are beginnings in God's plan.
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Love that is fueled solely by feelings will suddenly find itself out of gas on a long road with no gas stations.
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Real, lasting closure is never secured through retribution or retaliation.
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Has it not ‘dawned’ on us that many of the things that we incessantly blame others for are actually things that our actions originally set in motion? Or, are we too weak to experience a ‘dawning’ of that sort?
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Oh yes, I am frequently driven to an enraged frenzy by the blatantly crass actions of others. But to be painfully honest, that anger is much less driven by the reality of their actions and far more fueled by the realization that everything I am is everything that I hate in them.
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Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God’s majesty.
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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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Fear says that what God has called me to is blatantly impossible. Selfishness says that the cost is unacceptably prohibitive. My humanity harbors other lesser agendas that seduce me to my own death. And I would be wise to believe none of it.
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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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The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known.
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Only God understands how incredibly far we’ve fallen, and only God understands how incredibly far we can rise. And only we can determine if we’re going to wallow in the mediocrity that is born of the refusal to understand either.
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If we limit love to being nothing more than a feeling, we have no real feeling for what love is.
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My rather arrogant attitude deludes me into believing that my ability to understand something is the criteria for its legitimacy. And if there’s one thing in my life that I don’t understand yet I allow to be legitimate, thinking this way would most certainly be it.
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True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us.
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And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we’re on a grand adventure when we’ve completely forgotten what an adventure is.
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To be blessed and yet permit gluttony to blind me to the blessings is to banish myself to a life of unrelenting poverty even though I might be utterly engulfed in the embrace of a million marvelous blessings.
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If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts of all is to have ‘nothing’ so that I can finally learn how to appreciate ‘everything’.
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Greed is the fast-track to poverty.
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The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.
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Contradictions are the impossible chasms that create forever separations. God is the forever bridge that creates impossible reunions.
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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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Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?
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I am so often the architect of my own pain and the engineer of my own failures.
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If those who cause destruction have come to be ‘newsworthy’, and those who heal the devastation of that destruction have come to be less than ‘noteworthy’, has our thirst to be entertained become the truly destructive thing?
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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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Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might now exist.
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Discouragement is the cancer of great things.
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Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?
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Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’. And while it’s ‘right’ to admit this to myself, it isn’t ‘easy.’ So, which choice am I going to make this time?
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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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The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.
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The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.
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Failure is blessing wrapped in the clothing of curse.
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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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Failure is not the deterrent for the next try. Rather, it is information that empowers the next step.
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Failure is a friend if we can see past the face of the foe that we project on it.
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The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.
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Whatever the depth of our darkness, God navigated it eons before it was dark. And whatever the duration of our nights, God was there long before it ever turned to night. Therefore, despite our frequent feelings to the contrary, there is no place we might be where God was not lovingly waiting for us an eternity before we got there.
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With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea.
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I say that my value is based on my accomplishments. Christmas is God saying that I am His accomplishment and that will forever be enough.
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It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.
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Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior.
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I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do.
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If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.
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In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.
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Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.
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Purpose declares that the trajectory of my existence and the course of human history were intentionally set to collide at this precise moment in time because what I have to offer human history is desperately needed at this precise time.
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Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.
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Will I someday pass into history having passed by God and therefore forfeited the opportunity to change my world and reap the blessing of being able to do so because I saw myself as inadequate to achieve either? And how long will it take me to realize that if I doggedly refuse to pass by God, my inadequacy is instantly irrelevant and I have in actuality begun to achieve these very things.
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