Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes - Page 5

Too often we make it more about what stands before us, and we miss all that stands within us.
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Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth.
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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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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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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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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 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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With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way.
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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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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 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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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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Where there is no hope, there is Christmas. And where there is no Christmas, there is no hope.
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The hands of man can manufacture many things both penetratingly brilliant and utterly astounding. Yet, despite their amazing dexterity and profound skill they cannot manufacture hope. Such a masterpiece as that is left for the hands of God and a manger crafted by those hands.
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Strength other than that received from God is just hype manufactured by men.
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Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.
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So, there’s this hornet’s nest. And there’s this long stick. And then there’s me. How I walk away from all of this will depend on whether I realize that some things go together and some things don’t no matter how hard you try.
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If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the question in the first place.
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A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn’t help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.
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I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.
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In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it’s not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.
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If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.
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Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?
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Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of these at the exclusion of the other, I will eventually wake up on some road facing the ‘reality’ that I’m far more lost than I could have ‘imagined’.
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A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.
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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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Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.
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I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.
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When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.
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