Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes - Page 9

If I have found my journey to be a maddening tangle of wandering ‘rabbit-trails,’ a labyrinth of incessantly circular passages to nowhere and back, and a plethora of assorted ‘dead-ends’ fraudulently disguised as paths of great promise, it can only be because I have mindlessly exchanged God’s compass for mine. Therefore, it would appear that another exchange might be in order.
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In reality, is being sedentary a choice to run from our calling by not running after it?
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With God, a mountain is only a road waiting to happen.
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If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not.
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Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?
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When the world does its level best to devalue me in ways that are nothing short of brutal, all it does is evidence my value. For why would it expend such massive amounts of energy attempting to destroy something that’s not there?
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To maximize our lives we think that we should get up and join in the race. Yet, we rarely consider that maybe it’s less about joining a race and more about actually creating one.
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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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Jesus came to give us life to the very edges of life.
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To take this one shot at life and live it with God is to take this one shot and have it reverberate across and around my world as if it were a million shots and more.
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When will I realize that without God my world is draped in shadows between which there is not a single ray of light? And when will I recognize that with God, my world is deluged in light between which there is not a single thread of darkness?
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Doing life without God is not doing life.
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It’s not that I’ve ‘faked my own death’ as the saying goes. Maybe it’s that I’ve ‘faked my own life,’ and in doing so I’ve yet to realize how dead I really am.
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To ‘live’ is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived.
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The art of living is to rise above lesser things so that we can truly enjoy great things. And the message of Christmas is the greatest of all things.
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It would be wise to define ‘living’ as walking in the fullest expression of who I am, verses wallowing in the confines of who I’m not.
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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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Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it’s about working to live right.
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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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To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.
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To let something go is to participate in a much greater dance that we call life.
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We’ve yet to comprehend the impervious reality that to gain ‘life’ we have to do the most scandalous thing imaginable, and that is to work ‘against’ the whole of our humanity and give everything away. And yet to give everything away is to work ‘with’ the whole of God’s character.
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We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really ‘lived’ a day in our lives.
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It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we’re going to survive life.
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We can fill our lives with ‘stuff,’ but as we do we’re concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that ‘stuff.
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The worst denial of all is being in denial that we’re in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that’s not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.
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Maybe we ought to consider that sometimes the most destructive outcomes in our lives are the ones that we’ve created.
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The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.
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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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We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.
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If safety is my goal, living life is not.
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The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.
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It’s really a rather simple thing to bring balance to my anger. All I need to do is remember that the ‘hand of cards’ that have been dealt to me pale in comparison to the ‘deck of cards’ that I’ve thrown at others.
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It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving ‘through’ life without driving ‘in’ life. So, I’ve decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down.
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I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation to stand back up either.
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I pray that I am sufficiently stirred by the rumor of great things to seek the God who created this single thread that I am, and to marvel at a vision magnificent enough to cause this God to weave from this single thread a tapestry most resplendent.
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Apathy is giving up when we need to get up.
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The problem with the ‘herd’ is that our voice is never ‘heard’.
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The ‘fact’ of my actions frequently collide with the ‘fiction’ of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?
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The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.
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If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.
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It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.
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If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap other than the conviction that they believe they do.
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A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate the child within.
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Is it reasonable to assume that the jarring nature of a particular consequence might be the very thing that strong-arms us away from making the poor choice that we didn't see as a poor choice?
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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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Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.
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We have a choice. We can be jaded by what we’ve lost, or joyous over what that thing had accomplished while we had it.
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It is the length of the journey that ripens the joy of the outcome.
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I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear not a reality of my journey.
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Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we might come to the precious realization of how little we’ve actually lived in the first place?
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Disappointment focuses on ‘what is not,’ and completely misses the far greater reality of ‘what now is.
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I can only begin the process of saving myself when I surrender to the reality that I can’t. And what greater place to surrender that reality than to an infant who surrendered Himself to me so that I might surrender myself to Him.
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No person, collection of people, institution, government or organization of any kind can in any way promise to meet all of my needs for no person, collection of people, institution, government or organization possesses the array of resources necessary to do that. And so, I am left with the reality that either there is a God who can meet all of my needs, or I’ve been stranded in an existence that created me with needs that the existence itself cannot meet.
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We live with this tortured feeling that we must create that which in reality we have the privilege of finding.
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If truth is relative, then it’s cousin is anarchy.
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To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for the assumption of 'entitlement.' And once that happens, I will forfeit the reality of the former which will destroy the assumption of the latter. And in what terribly dark place will that now leave me?
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To lust for something is desire turned selfish and gone mad. To embrace God’s passion is desire turned selfless and gone mindful.
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If left to my own simplistic devices and the sorely scant limits of my abilities, would I not die a death of the blandest sort imaginable? And should I not thank God that He graciously gifted me with an imagination that renders such a death entirely unimaginable?
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Mediocrity is ‘purpose’ left to rot in minds ensnared in the deluded rationalization that vision is nothing more than a collection of fanciful dreams constructed by an imaginary God.
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