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“Maybe the best way to think about something in a ‘new’ way is to believe enough in what we already know to actually act on it.”

Believe Courage Risk Determination Bravery New Year Fortitude Accomplishments New

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I wonder how often it’s less about getting out of where we’re at, and more about giving ourselves the illusion that we’re trying to get out of where we’re at. And in the scandalous action of trading the fear of what ‘could be’ for the pain of ‘what is,’ we have traded away the whole of our lives.”

Motivation Faith Hope Fear Courage Future Determination Possibilities Familiarity Tenacity

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The greatest act of strength is to acknowledge that we have none. The greatest act of faith is to believe that our weakness is God’s strength. And the greatest act of courage is to act on these realities.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Courage Strength Weakness

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“Determination will amplify any asset.”

Strength Battle Determination Warrior Fortitude Amplify Asset

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“Any deficit that you have can never stand against the asset that that deficit is waiting to become.”

Growth Strength Possibility Personal Growth Potential Deficit Maturation Asset

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“Deficits are defeated by the strength that we gain in fighting them.”

Fighting Strength Determination Inferiority Inadequacy Inferior Deficits

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“True strength will bow to wisdom. Arrogance has no knees.”

Wisdom Strength Surrender Knees Arrogance Bow

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“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.”

Nature Strength Wind Determination Roots Fortitude

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“Maybe it’s not about breaking your shackles at all. Maybe it’s about making you bigger than anything that would ever try to shackle you ever again.”

Growth Strength Overcoming Maturity Shackles Breaking Captive Imprisoned

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“If I determine to set out to conquer my fellowman, I must realize that such a goal is not achieved by force of strength, but by depth of character. And in that sense, it’s not about conquering a person, but making a friend.”

Character Friendship Strength Integrity Respect Conquer Admiration

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“It’s not about getting tired, as that’s inevitable. Rather, it’s about giving up once we’re tired, because that’s not inevitable.”

Strength Determination Bravery Tired Inevitable Courageous Discouraged Fortitude Fatigue

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“The strength of our determination is more important than the size of our stride.”

Faith Belief Strength Integrity Determination Goals Fortitude Stride

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“It wasn’t the sunrise that took my breath away. Rather, it was the privilege of knowing that forces a billion times my own strength silently merged in the first light of a new day to remind me that I am part of something infinitely bigger than all of the combined challenges of any day.”

Nature Challenges Power Strength Obstacles Sunrise Billion

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“Raw strength will always fall to great passion.”

Dream Desire Purpose Passion Strength Calling Passionate

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“Bravery without vision is a loose cannon, and vision without bravery is a search for a cannon. But put both together, and you have an armada.”

Wisdom Powerful Vision Strength Determination Bravery Cannon Armada

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“Strength is what is granted to me by God so that He might show through me what He wishes to do through others.”

God Inspiration Christian Jesus Strength Example Exhibit Illustrate

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“If we want to build our faith in God, maybe we should start by understanding His faith in us.”

Christian Faith Belief Strength Confidence God Jesus

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“Dear God, grant me the strength that I don’t have to do the things I can’t do.”

God Christian Passion Jesus Vision Strength Calling Determination Goals

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“To admit that I am weak is the exercise of strength.”

Strong Strength Integrity Weakness Determination Weak Fortitude Confess Admit

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“I would wonder if the essence of strength lays in the power of passion.”

Passion Strong Power Strength Weakness Weak Tenacity

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“My focus is not on the flood that surrounds me. Rather, my focus is on the God Who surrounds the flood.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Strength Bible Providence Flood Provision Promises

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“I cannot confuse the ‘battle’ with the ‘war’. For out of my weakness I am bound to lose a battle, but out of God’s strength I am guaranteed to win the war.”

War God Christian Faith Fighting Jesus Strength Battle Weakness Warfare

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“To be strong I must first admit that I am weak. And that requires some of the greatest strength imaginable.”

Strong Leadership Leader Strength Honesty Weak Vulnerability Self Reliant

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“If your circle of friends is circling the drain, you need to get out of the sink and turn on the garbage disposal.”

Choices Social Friends Circle Of Friends Garbage Disposal Drain Friend Group Circling The Drain

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“Enemies are not born. They are created.”

Enemy Friends Deception Manipulation Created Social Reconstruction

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“As this day closes, I am one step further away from those who betrayed me and I am now one step closer to those who will embrace me.”

Love Friends Embrace Betrayal Faithful Betray Trustworthy Accept

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“What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I’d better figure out what I rubbing up against.”

Hard Choices Social Family Friends Impact Effect Rub Rub Off

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“I wonder how much of our humanity as individuals is compromised by the absence of the humanity of those around us who are themselves compromised by our absence?”

Humans Humanity Relationships Community Share Friends Compliment Build Engage

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“Many will resolutely declare their allegiance to us. And in time, that allegiance will inevitably come into direct conflict with their allegiance to themselves. Therefore, when the moment of crisis arises, the crisis is less about the crisis itself and more about the crisis of friends having forgotten the meaning of allegiance.”

Friendship Friends Commitment Betrayal Abandonment Allegiance Promises Back Stabbed

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“Don’t think for a moment that there’s nothing to be learned from the people who’ve failed us. For some of the greatest lessons that we’ve been granted are from those who showed us how ‘not’ to do something. And we’d be wise to remember that some of those people are us.”

Learning Friends Lessons Parents Disappointed Role Models Failed Examples

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“He said that the blood was not his own, but that of a comrade a few feet away who had been blown apart by an enemy grenade. And after having left the rice paddies of Vietnam, he eventually took up residence in the pew of a small mid-western church. For he said that he had been covered by the blood of one friend in combat and by blood of another on a cross in another sort of combat. And such was his love for both that he committed to forget neither.”

God Jesus Church Sacrifice Friends Combat Remembrance Crucifixion Cross

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“Throughout our lifetime many people come ‘to’ us. But if they haven’t come ‘for’ us the coming doesn’t matter. And I would have us carefully consider that Christmas is God perfectly doing both.”

Giving God Christian Sacrifice Friends Jesus Christ Christmas Acquaintances

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“Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.”

Opportunity Growth Relationships Space Family Marriage Friends Add Vulnerable Vulnerability Partnership Spouse Friendships Partner Build Maturation Build Up Subtract Tear Down

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“Maybe consequences are dear friends in stealthy disguise.”

Friends Consequence Salvation Deception Rescue Disguise Consequences Deceptive Stealth

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“Prayer is the wildly liberating acknowledgement that I am not doomed to the smallness that denying God would sentence me to.”

God Christian Jesus Prayer Infinite Denial Pray Doomed Small

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“We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be.”

Self Self Esteem Bigger Doomed Underestimate Person Doom Inferiority Sabotage Self Concept Inferior Reduce Minimize

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“God takes the impossible and makes it the inevitable.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Vision Impossible Inevitable Possibilities Possible

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“Don’t confuse my angst with any sort of fear regarding how all of this will end. Rather, my angst is for the people who will suffer great pain because they refuse to acknowledge how all of this will end.”

Results Inevitable Denial Justification End Angst Rationalization Outcome

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“Sin is deciding that a momentary pleasure is worth a lifetime of destruction. And if true pleasure is of such character that it never invites destruction, then sin destroys us for something that we never got.”

Character God Christian Jesus Sin Pleasure Destruction Naive Deluded

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“Doing nothing but seeking pleasure is an attitude that will bankrupt our souls long before we ever seek out the pleasures that we thought would fill them.”

Soul Pleasure Attitude Selfish Greedy Self Centered Bankrupt Pleasure Seeking

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“Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.”

Pain Forget Pleasure Attention Foolish Ease Lazy Foolishness Mediocre Thankful Forgetfulness Forgetful Reminder Remind Attentive Thankfully

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“My deepest longings don’t lie in great things for greatness is always birthed of simplicity, and God in a manger is the simple pinnacle of such a great truth.”

God Truth Jesus Simple Greatness Salvation Simplicity Christmas Rescue

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Three tiny children excitedly gathered around a butterfly majestically poised on a single flower. Each were utterly enraptured at this magnificent sight of gentle beauty. And when the butterfly suddenly took to the sky, all three children ecstatically waved goodbye as if it had somehow been the most phenomenal encounter of their day. And as adults caught in the rush of doing ‘adult’ things, we would do well to remember that the ‘phenomenal’ sits waiting for us on flowers and other such simple things.”

Children Nature Simple Adults Simplicity Encounters Flowers Phenomenal Butterflies

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“If we have seed, soil, and water, we have the ingredients for a miracle. And yet, it is not in our nature to believe that a miracle can arise from something so simple. Therefore, we forsake the miracle in our search for the miracle.”

Faith Belief Water Simple Miracle Simplicity Soil Forsake Seed

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Simplicity involves coming to the realization that over ninety percent of what consumes our time is doing nothing more than consuming our time.”

Simple Stupid Simplicity Ignorant Useless Naive Consume Wasteful Squander

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“Of course the miraculous resides in the mundane, for the genius of the mundane is that it is never filled with any of itself. And because it is not, it has ample space to house something as miraculous as the miraculous.”

Simple Space Genius Empty Available Miraculous Mundane Open

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Hope is born in simple places to simple hearts that have enough space for a miracle to happen.”

Faith Hope Belief Born Simple Space Hopeful Possibilities Miracles Hearts

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Sometimes it only takes a simple thought to help us remember what it took us years to forget.”

Remember Quotes Simple Forget Thoughts Simplicity Forgetfulness Recall

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character.”

Character Perfect Personality Human Perfection Characteristics Imperfection Attributes Imperfect Traits Uniqueness Qualities Fallible

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“Any real dream will leave you questioning whether it can be done, while infusing you with a passion that refuses not to get it done.”

Dream Desire Passion Vision Doubt Questioning Drive

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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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