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“A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter.”

God Faith Jesus Lost Prayer Christianity Journey Praying Bible Jesus Christ Man Woman Patriotism Sail Nation Drifting Prayerful Rudder

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It‘s utterly astounding that every time I get knocked down God’s mercy compassionately raises me to my feet; His grace thoroughly brushes off every trace of assorted filth I accumulated in the fall, His word precisely recalibrates my direction to insure the success of a journey resumed, and once all of that is completed He gently leans over and whispers, “How about another run?”

Life God Jesus Compassion Grace Journey Failure Forgiveness Bible Mercy Gods Word Falls

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“I will likely fail not because the task was impossible, but because my attitude was.”

Attitude Impossible Failure Perspective Optimism Pessimism Negativity Fail

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I spend all of my time wondering whether the goal can actually be achieved, I will soon forget all of the far greater reasons why it can.”

Goal Attitude Negative Optimism Pessimism Possibilities Postive

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“It’s not what the day holds. Rather, it’s how we hold the day.”

Life Faith Hope Attitude Opinion Perspective Optimism Day

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“To give optimism a hand up, we must come to understand that behind the mask of pessimism there is nothing more than fear bent on knocking us down.”

Fear Optimism Deception Mask Deceit Pessimism

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“Behind the mask of pessimism there is nothing more than this pathetic fear that spends every waking moment of its day fearing that we might actually succeed.”

Success Opportunity Fear Failure Confidence Optimism Mask Frightened Pessimism Possibilities

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“God declared that the end of ourselves need not be the end of ourselves. And if we don’t somehow find that exhilarating, we will end ourselves.”

God Faith Jesus Belief Optimism Christmas Easter End Selves

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The longer I’ve walked with God the more I’ve realized that being thankful is vigorously celebrating what’s right in the world while anticipating that what’s wrong with it will soon follow suit.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Belief Vision Optimism Thanksgiving Thankful

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s not about believing in something. Rather, it’s about what I believe in. And too often what I believe in is that there’s nothing to believe in.”

Believe God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Belief Optimism Pessimism

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If there’s one thing that will stop people from achieving their goals, it’s a wall. However, as I see it, without a wall there’s no place to build a door.”

Challenges Doors Optimism Obstacles Goals Hopeful Pessimism Walls

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“Far too often I have assumed something as impossible because I’ve held my limitations up against the magnitude of the challenge. But when I choose to hold God up against the magnitude of the challenge, then what becomes impossible is my ability to see it as impossible.”

God Faith Jesus Belief Challenges Impossible Optimism Christmas Easter Possible

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“Pessimism is not part of my nature. Rather, it’s part of what happens to me when I reject God’s nature.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Belief Nature Vision Optimism Pessimism

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“We tend to perseverate on the fact that as far as we might have fallen, there’s always another bottom underneath the one we’re laying on. Yet, for every bottom underneath us, there’s always endless opportunity above us.”

Fall Opportunity Possibility Optimism Bottom Optimistic Fallen Pessimism Pessimistic Falling Underneath

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.”

Faith Attitude Perspective Optimism Appreciation Point Of View Optimistic Thanks Pessimism Thanksgiving Possibilities Thankfulness Thankful Pessimistic Liabilities Life View

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Disappointment focuses on ‘what is not,’ and completely misses the far greater reality of ‘what now is.”

Reality Focus Optimism Disappointment Pessimism Discouraged Disappoint Discouragement Forsake Forsaken Bypass Misinterpreted Missed Misdirected

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s not that the bee hovers in the seemingly effortless way that it does that amazes me. Rather, it’s more the amount of air that it has to move in order to do that.”

Work Effort Sacrifice Persistent Effortless Amazing Hovering Bee

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“I’ve never wondered if tomorrow was going to show up. Rather, what I’ve wondered is what I was going to do with it that made its showing up worthwhile.”

Purpose Work Responsibility Tomorrow Accountability Worthwhile Mission

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“If you don’t have moments where it feels like a nightmare, then what your pursuing is not a dream.”

Dream Pain Purpose Work Vision Struggle Difficulty Goals Nightmare Mission

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“If your vision is not bigger than all of the strategies that you have created to achieve it, then you’ve confused ‘vision’ with a nice idea.”

Dream Work Vision Huge Determination Strategy Idea Nice Idea

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“We labor not to accomplish some task, for that is far too simple. We labor so that a child is a bit safer, a hunger satisfied, a house warmed, poverty brought to its knees, a dream brought to reality, a wound healed, a need met in whatever way that need is met. We labor to leave those for whom we have labored enriched in ways that could not have been possible were it not for our labor. Therefore, we would be wise to remember that it is in the sweat of our labors that we have the privilege of leaving the imprint of our legacies.”

Giving Work Sacrifice Labor Gift Legacy Help Assistance Labor Day

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“Rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty will put your shirts to good use and keep your conscience clean.”

Hands Work Work Ethic Sleeves

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“Nothing got cleaned just because it got to the laundry room.”

Work Effort Cleaning Laundry Work Effort Cleaned Laundry Room

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“We work hard to believe that our actions really don’t affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much.”

Believe Work Results Foolish Decisions Outcomes Consequences License

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“I am a coward. And over the years I haven’t worked all that hard to change that. Rather, I’ve worked very hard not to act on it.”

Work Determination Bravery Brave Personal Development Coward Frightened Cowardice Fortitude Tenacity

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“Work your garden diligently. For the fruit will feed you today and the seeds hold the promise of being fed tomorrow.”

Today Work Tomorrow Promise Garden Prosperity Seeds Feed Fed

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“There is the head of the axe and the head of him who wields it. And if both are sharp, the size of the axe and the height of the tree doesn’t matter.”

Work Ability Tree Intelligent Work Ethic Accomplishments Sharp Attentive Axe

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“The effort involved in splitting the wood will be amply repaid by the warmth that it brings to the house. However, at the point that the axe becomes heavy and my arms get sore, the idea of the warmth goes cold.”

Pain Motivation Work Struggle Fire Determination Goals Warmth Work Ethic Axe

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“If you don’t pick up the axe, the tree will never come down.”

Work Effort Tree Determination Accomplishment Work Ethic Axe

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“The garden asks only that I weed it and water it. And in exchange for something that demands so little of me, my tiny garden toils day and night to produce a harvest that demands everything of it.”

Work Sacrifice Garden Toil Work Ethic Give Little Exchange Demands

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“Prayer is the work behind the work.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Work Prayer Praying Battles

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“Yet, there are those moments when what we stand to lose is greater than the pain that threatens to take it.”

Pain Work Loss Losing Determination Painful Fight Tenacity Threats Losses

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“If I am to excel in this life in any manner that is worthwhile, I must understand that ease is not a lifestyle. Rather, it is the brief and very momentary gift that we are granted because we have spent the bulk of our time purposely engaging that which is hard.”

Hard Easy Work Calling Determination Gift Ease Lazy Fortitude

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“The quote, “God is not done with me ‘yet’” implies a conclusion to God’s work in our lives when the existence of such a concept is non-existent.”

God Christian Quotes Jesus Work Development Conclusion Ending Maturation Task

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“The garden is the place where the work of yesterday births the fruit of today which contains the seeds of tomorrow.”

Today Work Vision Tomorrow Determination Patience Fruit Seeds Yesterday Planning

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“It’s not about working hard. It’s about what we’re working hard about.”

Purpose Work Sacrifice Hard Work Determination Value Selfish Worthwhile Selfless Labor Day

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“Silence was not built to be filled by noise, for when we do we forfeit what we would have heard had it been left silent.”

Space Silence Heard Filled Hearing Noise Forfeit

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“If you let silence do the talking, the fool will drown in the words that they’re certain to fill it with.”

Wisdom Silence Wise Fool Words Foolish Idiot Thoughtful Arrogant Drown

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“There is more said in silence than in a crowd of thousands.”

Silence Noise Nonsense Meaningless Crowd Empty Words

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“Silence is the space that we create when all of the noise around us finally realizes that it hasn’t said anything, that it’s not going to say anything, but it can’t bring itself to shut up.”

Silence Stupid Empty Noise Nonsense Meaningless Void Shut Up Empty Words

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“It is far better to say nothing than to utter a thousand words that say the same thing that silence would have said. For in the end, you will have saved a ton of time and a whole lot of credibility.”

Time Politics Silence Foolish Thoughtful Credibility Discernment Verbal

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“Silence is the place where we can listen without having to hear anything. And in not having to hear anything we can, in fact, now listen to everything.”

Space Silence Silent Hearing Realization Everything Listen

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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.”

Children Choices Silence Stupid Fool Foolish Ignorant Maturity Choice Mature Child Naive Adult Inner Child Scolded Silenced Suppress

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The voice incessantly quelled in the chorus of human voices will always be the voice of God. And given a reality of this magnitude, I would be well advised to cease my babbling and encourage those around me to do the same.”

God Christian Silence Christianity Listening Silent Deny Hearing Listen Ignore Babbling Attentive God S Voice

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“It is the brave soul who refuses to reject who they are in favor of the lesser things that they are not.”

Soul Identity Ignorance Fool Brave Foolish Reject

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“Fear is the misery of the faithless soul.”

Soul God Christian Pain Faith Loss Misery Faithful Faithless

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“The celebration of Christmas is a riotous declaration of the message that “unto us a child is born.” For without that message infusing the very life and essence of the celebration of Christmas every celebratory moment that we engage in during this season will be the stuff of meaningless pomp and empty circumstance. And tragically, in a world that has disemboweled that very message from the celebration, countless celebrants are destined to walk away achingly barren and with an undercurrent of gnawing disappointment because their empty rituals could not gift them with what the essential core of their humanity is in desperate need of. Therefore, “unto us a child is born” is the message that we must boldly and even brazenly herald throughout the year so that no soul who dares to celebrate in this manner will ever be left empty because the gift of this child is the embodiment of everything that we need and nothing that we do not.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Words possess the power to ignite the slumbering soul in a manner so jarringly profound that that soul can do nothing less than throw out the bed.”

Soul Power Bed Words Ignite Enthuse Slumbering

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“Legacy can only occur when cowardice is brought begging to the feet of the soul that is marching to drum of sacrifice.”

Soul Sacrifice Legacy Cowardice Footprint Marching

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“Sin is the fentanyl of the soul. There’s a whole lot of dead people who thought that they could control the dosage.”

Soul God Christian Death Sin Ignorance Foolish Drugs Sinful Fentanyl

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The Eighth Page: A Christmas JourneyRelated source material

An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and JesusRelated source material

Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound LivingRelated source material

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