CDCraig D. Lounsbrough

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Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

Where there is no hope, there is Christmas. And where there is no Christmas, there is no hope.

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02Undated

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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03Undated

If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in that single loss forfeited the whole of my life and effectively wiped out any hope that I can or will do anything other than exist.

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04Undated

The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.

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05Undated

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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06Undated

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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07Undated

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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08Undated

Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.

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09Undated

My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals.

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10Undated

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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11Undated

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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12Undated

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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13Undated

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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14Undated

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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15Undated

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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16Undated

In the absence of faith, our dreams will move from feasible aspirations to implausible fantasy.

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17Undated

It’s not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it’s a lack of faith within me.

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18Undated

With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way.

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19Undated

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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20Undated

Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man.

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21Undated

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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22Undated

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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23Undated

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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24Undated

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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