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“To consider the rights of others before I exercise my own, to see my fellowman as my opportunity not my liability, and to understand that a life shaped by Biblical values is a life of deep endurance and raw power...to embrace all of this is to be the very thing that a wounded world is begging for.”

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“Redefining reality evidences that there is a reality to redefine, it’s just that we’re not pleased with whatever that reality is. And given the unchangeable nature of reality, we’ve yet to admit that any redefinition of it is going to be even less pleasing.”

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“In our society, it appears that rules give us a more specific idea of the things that we want to break so that we can break them more efficiently.”

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“Ethics might be optional, but the consequences are not.”

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“Don’t say it if you’re not going to live it. And if you’re going to live it, you don’t have to say it anyway.”

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“If the compass that I hold in my hand is driven by the agendas that I craft in my head, that compass is something more like a windmill erected in a place where the wind never stops blowing.”

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“It seems that we are indiscriminately committed to force-fitting a moral standard to the selfishness of our agendas as a means of hiding the selfishness of our agendas. Yet, the only thing that’s hidden is the fact that nothing is hidden.”

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“To simply emote is not to express an opinion. Rather, it is an attempt to force a point of view that won’t stand on its own merits.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I craft my own ethics, they will serve my agendas rather than guide them. And that is something akin to racing a car down a mountain road without a steering wheel and somehow assuming that all is well.”

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“Freedom exercised without the tempering of wisdom and the guidance of ethics is freedom gone rogue. And freedom gone rogue is no longer freedom. Rather, it is the rather effective method by which we’ve now chosen to destroy ourselves.”

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“I think that bravery comes when the conviction to the principles that we hold dear takes our focus off the ferocity of the challenges that stand before us and instead directs our focus to the ferocity that is unleashed when a conviction is let off the leash.”

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“Our actions must be directed, tempered and brought under the full authority of a greater calling. For if they are not, chaos, pain and a host of other less than savory things are certain to come calling.”

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“If I possess a conviction that is not firmly grounded in an immovable sense of ethics, morals and values, what I have is a rogue agenda dressed in the finery of a conviction.”

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“Even if you have a great head start and some really fine running shoes, you can’t outrun guilt.”

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“In any culture where agendas have shaped ethics, we will find a culture that has in fact purged itself of ethics. And that means that in time there will be no culture.”

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“Ethics, morals and values keep freedom from devolving into license. For license is greed unleashed. And we would be quite wise to remember that greed unleashed is certain to turn and kill the thing that unleashed it.”

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“Too often our convictions are based on what is convenient. For if convictions are convenient, they are neither.”

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“How often have I lifted my foot to take a peek at what I’m standing on, only to discover that there’s nothing there and that I’ve been confusing ‘falling’ with ‘standing.”

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“If I should be so foolish as to hold ethics as the ignorance of a generation long passed, my life will pass in the ignorance of a generation that handed me what was genius.”

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“Somewhere along the way we've lost our convictions, and it appears that in the losing we've altogether forgotten what convictions are. For convictions have been meticulously redefined as rights run amuck in the service of self, greed mongering goals touted as the call of destiny obediently obeyed, the desire to abide by tawdry trends so as not to be ousted by favored groups, and other such horribly debilitating vices. And despite this utterly absurd rewrite (which is in fact a careless editing incessantly pawned off as embracing the most riveting legitimacy imaginable), convictions are in fact the commitment to steadfastly adhere to sound principles and proven ethics that thoughtfully build the world around us as they reshape the ugly agendas within us.”

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“Do not tell me about your principles, for words are easy to craft and talk is cheap. Rather, let me see you live them out in the sentence and syntax of everyday life. And let me see that not so that I know that you understand the principles that you espouse, for that is easy. Rather, I want to know that you understand the sacrifice of living them out, and that the weight of the principle offsets the sacrifice of carrying it.”

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“It is the person of principle who has learned that to repel all of the temptations and lesser vices is to court criticism of the most scathing sort. And for the person of principle, it is the arrival of that criticism that evidences the power of the principles.”

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“I do not doubt the ability of mankind to aspire to lofty ideals and the most pristine of principles. But what I doubt is the willingness of mankind to incur the sacrifices involved in moving from aspiring these things to actually embracing them. And in such a conundrum as this, I would suggest that to stop at ‘aspiring’ and never move to ‘embracing’ is without a doubt the greatest sacrifice of all.”

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“Sometimes I just sit and stare out of the window wondering what the world is going to do today. And my prayer is that what the world does today is based on Who God is every day.”

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“I don’t necessarily bemoan tragedy. Rather, what I bemoan is our seemingly inbred refusal to be accountable to the choices we’ve made that have caused those tragedies.”

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“I choose not be what the world is. Rather, I choose to be what the world says I cannot be.”

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“To release ourselves from accountability to our choices is to say that we can be ‘reckless’ without causing a ‘wreck.’ And maybe that’s why the road of life looks more like a parking lot.”

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“Maybe the last thing that we want to do should be the first thing that we choose to do. And in the society that I see unfolding around me, maybe that thing should be the surrender of everything that we are to everything that God is.”

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“As a nation, we must remember that the principles upon which we stand are always superior to the politics that we can’t stand.”

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“I would rather die by my convictions than die by the culture that defies them.”

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“Here’s the way to destroy your life in sixty seconds or less; convince yourself that something is ‘right’ simply because you want it to be, and then go act on it.”

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“Love is the thing that keeps everything else exactly where it needs to be. And so, if I’m out of whack, I’m probably out of love.”

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“Are the disjointed efforts of opinions, biases, cultural mandates, politically-correct notions, and all things vogue and trendy an effort to write ourselves sweeping permission to justify sweeping behaviors that will in time sweep us away?”

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“To take a stand based on the fickleness of the culture verses the weight of principle is to believe that part of standing up is falling off a cliff.”

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“I might wish to consider that upon which I stand, for in fact I may be standing on nothing which means that in reality I am not standing at all.”

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“Someone once said that ‘the end justifies the means’. And as I think about that, I’m not certain that any kind of ‘means’ that are justified will take me to any kind of ‘end’ that I want to be at in the first place.”

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“It’s not the image of standing on my principles that I want my children to remember. Rather, it’s understanding that being on my knees was the single thing that allowed me to stand on those principles.”

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“My conscience is the kill-joy of my greed. But my greed is the killer of my life. Any questions?”

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“Independence that has declared its ‘independence’ from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy.”

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“When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.”

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“Whatever I ‘align’’ myself with are the very things that will create a ‘line’ into my future.”

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Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

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“It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them and therefore breaking ourselves.”

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“I want to stand on the foundation of ethics and morals when the world around me would assault that foundation with all of its collective might, and in the standing I want to stand on the truth that that foundation will stand long after everything that has assailed it has itself has ceased to stand.”

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“The ‘end of the road’ is too often confused with the exit ramp of our impatience.”

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“The greatest power of all is having ‘all power’ but choosing not to use it.”

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“Patience is where we choose to enjoy the view instead of run off the cliff.”

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“To rush is to equate speed with productivity. For speed might insure that something gets done, but it does not guarantee that it’s productive.”

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“Patience compels me to adjust my stride to the cadence of life, not the pace of my greed.”

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“If you feel that you need to argue, do so once you’ve listened, because if you do you’re likely to realize that there’s really nothing to argue about. And that’s the best argument for not having one.”

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“Life is like a chess game; you have to think three moves ahead. Sadly, many people jump ahead and then wish that they could make six moves backwards.”

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