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“The measure of who you are will always exceed measurement.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It doesn't take a sprawling home or a cavernous self-storage to hold the things that really matter simply because one set of grateful hands has more than sufficient space to do that.”

Important Hands Value Valuable Meaning Materialism Priceless

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You are a whole lot more than people said you weren’t.”

Self Esteem Confidence Value Self Confidence Worth Self Perception Accusations

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A person is not measured by their accomplishments. Neither are they measured by their ability to accomplish. In fact, it’s not about being measured. Rather, it’s about being treasured.”

Value Treasure Worth Accomplishments Human Being Measure

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“To question the existence of a purpose is to evidence our need for one.”

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“God is precise, deliberate and intentional. Therefore, everything He created held sufficient value for Him to create it. And of all things, that includes you.”

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“The purpose in our pain will always exceed the amount of pain that was necessary to deliver that purpose to us.”

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“Maybe part of my 'purpose' is to be convinced that I have one so that I can convince others of theirs.”

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“Do I place more importance on the gift, or what it cost the person to give me the gift? And if I miss the latter because I focused on the former, my own ignorance has robbed me of both.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In the middle of some of the most passionate debates, I often ask my patients, “At your funeral, will it matter?” And it is amazing how often that question is followed by absolute silence.”

Importance Value Priorities Funeral Relevance

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To own something means that it is so small in stature and importance that it can be possessed. And I don’t know if there’s anything in life that’s really that small.”

Importance Value Possession Insignificant Stature Small

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“When our lives lay in scorched shambles, we cannot allow our lives to take on the identity of the carnage that lies smoldering all around us. Therefore, we must create something that irrefutably declares we are not what lies strewn at our feet. And so, we create successes that declare we are not this! Yet, the carnage remains.”

Success Identity Failure Destruction Value Worth Accomplishments Carnage

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Any sense of privilege that we have to possess something seems to vanish once we are actually able to possess it. Therefore, in how many cases would it better ‘not’ to possess something?”

Greed Value Privilege Appreciation Selfishness Worth Possess

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“There is more good in you than ‘anything else.’ And if you don’t see that, it’s because you’re seeing ‘everything else.”

Self Esteem Greatness Confidence Value Good Self Confidence Self Belief

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“Do not be ashamed of who you are, for in doing so you are not taking into account the majesty of all that you are. And without any shred of doubt I know that you are a person of majesty, for in my innumerable years of working with people I have yet to find even one person who is not.”

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“Look in the mirror. Go ahead and look yet again. And look not at the reflection, for while this body of yours is marvelously complex in ways that continue to elude the reach of modern science, it is but a simple shell that holds the image of God within you. And if the shell is that grand, how much more what God has placed inside of it.”

God Christian Jesus Self Esteem Value Self Worth Worth Image Of God

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“Life is not about looking for what I’ve never had. Rather, it’s about realizing that what I’ve lost is actually what I’m trying to find.”

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“We want to know that our worth is not altogether lost in the vastness of our obscurity. And I find it of tremendous comfort to remember that Christmas was the greatest Being in all of existence being born into the greatest obscurity ever imagined in order to declare that with God, there is no such thing.”

God Christian Jesus Comfort Value Christmas Worth Obscurity Holidays

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“I would encourage you to always look at the little things, for little though they are, they hold great things. And I would likewise encourage you to pay enough attention to the big things so that you don’t lose the little things that lie within them.”

Wisdom Greatness Importance Value Insight Priorities Great Discernment Little Acumen

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“The greatest asset in my pain is the power that it has to bring healing to the life of another, of which I myself am included.”

Pain Purpose Healing Power Value Meaning Restoration Asset

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“As far my priorities are concerned, there’s the front of the line, the end of the line, and everything in-between. And as far as God is concerned, He spends most of His time waiting to get in line.”

God Christian Jesus Importance Value Priorities Materialism Entitlement Line Godless

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“How do I begin to evaluate my worth? By realizing that some things can’t be assigned a value, and that my life is one of them.”

Life Existence Determination Value Self Worth Worth Evaluation

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“I can rid myself of ‘all of the death’ that is all around me by getting out of the way of all of the things that ‘all of that death’ was attempting to birth within me.”

Death Purpose Opportunity Growth Birth Value Meaning Maturity

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“What's the purpose in all of this if there's not a purpose in all of this?”

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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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“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.”

Purpose Faith Birth Chaos Value Meaning Permit Permission Plan Direction Purposeful Birthed

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“What I do is the truest mirror of who I am.”

Choices Passion Self Esteem Identity Reflection Value Authenticity Mirror Performance Self Understanding Self Concept

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“The death of our self-worth begins at its appraisal, for such an action erroneously implies that our worth can be quantified.”

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“I am not the sum total of my accomplishments, for no matter how much I exhaust myself acquiring those accomplishments, the sum total of them will always be far too trifling to ever reflect my true value. My value rests in the fact that I am an accomplishment of God so incalculably valuable that He gave up Himself rather than give me up.”

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“To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.”

Death Purpose Choices Calling Greed Value Hunger Selfish Hungry Meaning Materialism Mission Die Superficiality Starve

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“There are often two sets of goals in life: those that we establish, and those that really matter.”

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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.”

Self Esteem Prove Perfection Value Self Confidence Pursuit Self Worth Worth Self Loathing Self Hatred Imperfections Pursuing

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“If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.”

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“If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them.”

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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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“Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in the eyes of God we are worthy of a miracle.”

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“The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held.”

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“I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest.”

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“It is at the precise moment that I take something for granted that I have placed myself in the precarious position of losing that very thing. And if that thing I risk losing is liberty, taking it for granted is foolishness of the most foolish sort.”

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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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“The cross unerringly exposes this stunningly marvelous and abruptly exquisite declaration that God will not let this single life of mine, with all of its grotesque maladies and pathetic filth pass into oblivion without unflinchingly declaring that my life carries a value worth the expenditure of His. And if I dare look upon the cross, I am utterly perplexed but wholly enraptured by the immensity of such a love as this.”

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Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“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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“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.”

God Self Esteem Value Christmas Worth Accomplishments

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“I’m so busy, I’m not even available yesterday.”

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“One day I sat in the woods, which I found to be stunningly different than walking ‘through’ the woods. And in the sitting, the woods jumped to life with a spirited activity that I had scarcely ever seen or known to exist. And as I sat there turning this way and that in order to draw it all in, I thought that it was not the woods coming alive. Rather, it was me coming to a halt.”

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“It’s in the solace that I better understand the rat-race. For in the solace I have both the gifts of space and time to understand the rat-race, when I am otherwise consumed by the singular act of surviving it.”

Space Survival Competition Busy Schedules Solace Rat Race Busyness Demands Quite

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“We tediously create calendars filled with empty duties, and then we foolishly let those calendars empty us.”

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“Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that’s the case, we should get busy returning them.”

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“Freedom will always call men to itself regardless of the degree to which any tyrannical form of government might demand that men submit to its preferred brand of tyranny.”

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“Sometimes things call out to us and we know them with total certainty. Yet, the certainty eludes us and we’re left with the angst of the unknown regarding something that, in fact, we know.”

Known Doubt Calling Certainty Uncertainty Know Unknown Call Second Guessing

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

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