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“There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.”

“Of course love is blind; it keeps me blind to myself.”

Love Self Blind Selfless Selflessness Blinded Loved Myself

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I am indeed my own god, I’d better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself.”

Self God Prayer Praying Ego Selfish Pray Narcissism Egotism Narcissistic Egotistical Prayerful

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Self-preservation is to hunker down in the suffocating confines of this infinitesimally tiny existence that I define as ‘me,’ instead of letting ‘me’ run through the infinitely massive expanse of everything that is not me. And if the beast of self-preservation does not permit such freedoms, I will preserve myself to my own death.”

Life Self Fear Growth Freedom Limits Infinite Frightened New Year Preservation Grow Explore Limitations Self Preservation Preserve

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“I take my cues from the world around me and carefully paint a self-portrait that the world can’t help but accept. However, I would be much wiser to put down all such artistic notions and hold up the portrait of me painted by God simply because that is a picture at which the world can’t help but marvel.”

Self God Self Esteem Self Confidence Artistic Self Understanding Self Perception Self Concept Portrait

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“Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.”

Self Truth Values Humility Integrity Ethics Conscience Ears Humble Hearing Selfish Agendas Morals Selfless Bias Selflessness Deaf Fortitude Cotton Biases Hear Self Serving

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“You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.”

Believe Self Belief Greater Imagine Dreams Self Esteem Goals Self Confidence Self Worth Self Respect Great Possibilities Aspirations Self Hatred Capabilities Self Assured

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“Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?”

Self Reason Purpose Lost Destiny Clarity Wander Compass Lose Road Wandering Rationale Ourselves Map

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“If I don’t know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else.”

Self Identity Unique Self Awareness Conformity Uniqueness Conform Self Image Everyone Self Concept

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“To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin.”

“The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.”

Self Investment Greed Selfish Selfishness Greedy Self Centered Invest Hoarding Self Serving Short Hoard Shortest Stock Stockpile

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“In our frenzied attempts to catch up with life, we run right past it. Once we have run past it, what we are in reality attempting to catch is ourselves.”

Life Self Passion Race Achieve Accomplish Driven Goals Challenge Overcome Us Achievements Run Ourselves Chase Beat Catch Up

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“To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all.”

Self Freedom Attitude Humility Embrace Humble Liberation Selfless Free Selflessness Egotism Self Centered Egocentric Liberate

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“There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it’s time to believe the gnawing.”

Believe Self Belief Self Esteem Identity Resources Intuition Self Confidence Potential Feeling Possibilities Intuitive Self Perception Gnawing

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“The sacrifice ‘of’ self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice ‘for’ self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.”

“Prayer is one action where I lay aside my abilities to immerse myself wholly in God’s capabilities. And the liberation found in such an action is less about being engaged with God and more about being freed from myself.”

Self God Prayer Praying Ego Surrender Liberation Engaged Pray Self Sacrifice Abilities Give Up Egocentric Liberate Capabilities Freeing Freed

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Directing praise to oneself is to cash in on the ego in order to bankrupt the soul.”

Soul Self Ego Praise Oneself Selfish Egotism Egotistical Bankrupt

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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.”

Self Identity Walking Living Self Awareness Authenticity Myself Personhood Expressing

Book:Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

Source: Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“To feed the birds is to enliven the songs that enrich the forest through which I walk. To feed my fellowman is to enrich the world within which I live. And to feed myself is to remind me of the greater need to feed them so that I might be fed.”

Men World Giving Sacrifice Caring Birds Forest Feed Fed

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“If your ears are the only thing that’s listening, you aren’t hearing.”

Understanding Communication Empathy Caring Hearing Sympathy Listen Attentive

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“Maybe my ‘good deed for the day’ should be my commitment to making that statement plural every day.”

Sacrifice Caring Good Uplifting Helpful Encouraging Good Deed

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“The apple trees does not need the fruit that it produces. Yet, it gives the entirety of its life over to producing it for those who do. And I often wonder what would happen if we were more like a tree.”

Giving Fruit Caring Apples Selfless Trees Apple Trees Sacrificial Produces

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“It is the brave individual who will refuse to elevate themselves at the expense of others.”

Relationships Integrity Brave Caring Maturity Thoughtful Manipulation Elevate

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“Go do something great today. Something that's not pounded out from the podiums of prejudice, or politics, or rank biases stealthy clothed in righteous garments. Go do something great that's rooted in an essential good so deep that such podiums are helpless to capture even the thinnest parts of it. Go do something great today that's so clean and so authentic that the only podium that you find yourself listening to is the pain of the person standing next to you.”

Giving Politics Sacrifice Prejudice Caring Good Agendas Good Deeds Gifts Nurturing

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“Love makes it all ‘not about me.’ And after having spent the whole of my existence making it ‘about me,’ that’s an ‘about-face’ that’s about as difficult as it can get.”

Love Giving Helping Sacrifice Caring Selfish Vulnerability Selfless Narcissistic Egocentric

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“I think we fear that if we give ourselves away we are certain to lose ourselves in the giving. And I would suggest that you cannot lose yourself in ‘giving yourself away.’ Rather, you lose yourself when you ‘squander’ yourself away.”

Giving Lost Relationships Sacrifice Caring Yourself Friendships Lose Self Sacrifice

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“Love might be wounded by lesser things, but in the wounding it strengthens so that in time it has ample power to lovingly tame the lesser things and therefore handily transform the greater things.”

Love Change Transformation Caring Wounded Loving Nurturing Power Of Love Valentine S Day

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“To love is to risk. To not love is also to risk. Yet when it comes to love, the greatest risk is incurred when we give risk that much power.”

Love Giving Fear Power Risk Sacrifice Caring Vulnerable Cowardice

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“If your portfolio is made up of the investments that you have made in the lives of people, you will have amassed a wealth so vast that all the portfolios that will ever float the trading floor on Wall Street would, by comparison, be reckoned as nothing. And if by chance we dared to live by this truth, we would in fact would love like none other.”

Giving Money Calling Caring Goals Nurturing Wall Street Investments Portfolio People Sacrifice

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“The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.”

Love Giving Passion Focus Sacrifice Blind Caring Focused Selfish Priorities Selfishness Eyes Lover Loving Self Centered Nurturing Others Self Sacrifice Blinded Sacrificing Another

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“To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine.”

Life Giving Choices Sacrifice Resources Greed Caring Release Choice Consequences Give Self Centered Choosing Perishing Sacrificial Sacrificing Perish

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“The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known.”

Giving Sacrifice Gains Experience Caring Priorities Arise Accomplishments Achievements Sacrifices Successes

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“To ‘stop and smell the roses’ we must first believe that there’s a rose garden out there somewhere. And in this jaded world of ours, the refusal to believe in gardens leaves most of us ref of roses.”

Life Belief Reflection Thoughtful Pauses Roses Treasures Savor Hurried Unhurried

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“In our more frustrated moments we turn to people say, “Why don’t you try walking a mile in my shoes!” But the question is, “Which pair and where did I leave them?”

Understanding Walking Empathy Shoes Sympathy Life Experience Mile Walk A Mile In My Shoes

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“If we were to actually walk a mile in the other person’s shoes, there’s a good chance that we’d end up opting to live the rest of our lives walking barefoot.”

Understanding Walking Empathy Sympathy Companionship Camaraderie Barefoot Friendship Relationships

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“If you’re all dressed up with no place to go, take a moment and celebrate the fact that you’re already in the company of someone who’s worth dressing up for.”

Loneliness Self Esteem Appreciation Self Confidence Self Worth Celebrate

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“In the Bible God says, "Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.” God will listen. Not out of obligation. Not because you are a project. Not because you are a charity case. Not because God is checking a box. There’s none of that. The fact is, He created us to be heard by Him. Therefore, He can do nothing other than listen to us.”

God Christian Jesus Heard Loneliness Charity Obligation Listen

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is that incessantly gnawing loneliness that leaves us ever-restless, eventually driving us to embark upon some endless journey supposing that whatever would fill us is held in some hidden treasure that lays silently buried in a yet undiscovered place. Yet, it would do us well to understand that this loneliness is no more and no less than the image of the infinite God ever-stirring within us and all the while begging to be unleashed.”

God Christian Jesus Loneliness Salvation Longing Treasure Redemption Image Of God Indwelling

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“Sometimes we must take the most important journey’s in isolation; alone except for the experience itself.”

Path Journey Loneliness Lonely Experience Alone Isolation

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“It’s not solving someone’s problem. Rather, it’s solving the loneliness that they’re experiencing while they’re facing the problem.”

Problem Company Loneliness Solutions Lonely Partner Solving

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“The battle is never fought alone even though we might feel alone in the fight, for with God the feeling of being alone never supersedes the fact of His presence.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Loneliness Alone Fight Promises Battles

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“Making it ‘all about me’ is making it all about no one else. And if I stop long enough to look around, I suddenly realize that a lot of ‘me’ without a lot ‘no one else’ is not a lot of anything.”

Loneliness Ego Lonely Empty Selfish Abandoned Isolated Self Centered Ego Centric

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“I desperately want someone to see the anguish of my soul, for to walk alone in that kind of anguish creates an anguish all its own.”

Soul God Christian Pain Jesus Loneliness Isolation Anguish Abandonment

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“Remembering is not what's important. What's important is never forgetting the need to remember.”

Hero Terrorism Reverence Heroes Remembrance Remembering Memorials 9 11 Attack

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“True heroes know that the most heroic thing about being a hero is not letting anyone else know that you are one.”

Giving Sacrifice Hero Brave Humble Heroic Heroes Self Sacrifice

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“Many are rather easily able to contemplate the heroism of sacrifice, yet it is the few who are brave enough to move that notion from thought to action. And it is to those of you who made that move that my heart salutes and my soul marvels.”

America United States Sacrifice Bravery Patriotic Heroes Heroism Memorial Day Self Sacrifice

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“A truly great ideal will always be greater than the men who attempt embody it.”

Men Greater Goals Aspirations Ideal Embody

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“If God built the ship, lifeboats are unnecessary. However, if men built the ship lifeboats are also unnecessary simply because none of them will float any better than the ship.”

Men God Christian Faith Hope Confidence Assurance Ship Lifeboats Sinking Ships

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“I can only speak of wonder. But if you are too blinded by the shallowness of men who shout empty platitudes into hungry hearts, my words will be crowded out by the empty platitudes that stole the place in your heart that wonder was created for.”

Men Politics Wonder Ignorance Foolish Deception Majesty Platitudes

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“I can choose God or men. If I choose men, I will ultimately be alone despite the sheer number of them. If I choose God, I will never be alone because He cannot be numbered.”

Men God Christian Faith Jesus Alone Choose Outnumbered

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The Eighth Page: A Christmas JourneyRelated source material

An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and JesusRelated source material

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