Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

“God says that you are enough. You might look in the mirror with a million voices screaming something very different into the person that you see looking back at you. But voices and mirrors lie when God never does.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The size of the giant in front of you will always be determined by the size of the giant within you.”

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“Because I claim to know where I am at does not mean that I am at the place that I claim to be. For quite frequently the 'claim' represents my attempt to be what I am not, while the 'place' represents my attempts to not be what I am.”

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“The question of ‘who I am’ is far more compelling than the question ‘who I am not.’ For to build on the former is to resolve the question of the latter.”

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“To believe in yourself is to risk on yourself, and there will never be a time when that risk is too risky.”

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“They say that believing in God can be hard. But from where I’m standing, that’s nothing compared to having to believe in myself. Yet, the oddest thing of all is that God believes in me even if I don’t believe in either of us.”

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“If I make something as small as myself, it will never be as great as I need it to be in order to help me quit being as small as I've chosen to be.”

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“One of the most horrific things that you can do to yourself is to discount the abilities that you have to change yourself.”

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“One of the greatest plagues that besets our humanity is our inability to believe in the totality of who we are and the utter vastness of what we can achieve. And because of this crippling disbelief, we settle for the lesser lives that we were never built for. Yet despite the enormity of our skepticism, it is well within our reach to smash such a crippling disbelief for, in fact, that is the very thing that we were built to do.”

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“One of the greatest plagues that besets our humanity is our inability to believe in the totality of who we are and the utter vastness of what we can achieve. And because of this crippling disbelief, we settle for the lesser lives that we were never built for. Yet despite the enormity of our skepticism, it is well within our reach to smash such a crippling disbelief for, in fact, that is the very thing that we were built for.”

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“Pretending is the outcome of desperately wanting to achieve something, but forfeiting it to the whimsy of imagination because we lack the faith to believe that we could achieve it. And if we actually started to pretend that we could achieve it, in time maybe we wouldn’t have to pretend anymore.”

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“If something didn’t happen, it’s probably not that it couldn’t. Rather, it’s more that we chose not to believe that it could.”

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“The real challenge is not what stands before us. Rather, it’s in believing what resides within us.”

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“The world offers us a lot of mirrors, and we spend a whole lot of time standing in front of a whole lot of them. And regardless of which one of these many mirrors we choose, it will never be large enough to take in ‘all that we are’ in order to reflect ‘all that we are’ back to us. For God made you far too marvelous for the mirrors of men. Therefore, you might want to quit standing in front of them.”

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“You, yes you are the impossible waiting to happen. And the only reason that that sounds impossible to you is that you haven’t been daring enough to push the possible out to the point where it becomes what you once mistook for the impossible.”

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“You are fully and magnificently equipped to stand up and change the world around you. And to simply sit down and tolerate the world around you is to squander who you are in the process of never being who you are.”

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“Pull every dream that you’ve ever had from all of the places that you’ve abandoned them, brush them off, set them in front of yourself, run the fingers of your heart over each of them, fight the lie that you’re not enough to achieve them, and realize that the dream was not too big. Rather, the belief in yourself is too small.”

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“I’ve sat with tens of thousands of people and I’ve stared into as many empty eyes. And I must say that the inexplicable contradiction for me is that despite the gaping emptiness engulfing every one of these eyes, there yet lies within each one a wonderfully formidable gifting, an irrepressible energy, a depth yet undiscovered, riches unfathomed, and the resources to amply transform this ever-darkening world. And I’ve seen enough eyes to know that if yours are also empty, like everyone else’s they are also full.”

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“It’s not about reinventing myself. Rather, it’s about reinventing my attitude about reinventing myself.”

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“The question of ‘who I am’ is bigger than ‘who I am.’ Therefore, I think it far wiser to ask the Great I AM who I am.”

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“Wearing camouflage is based on the desire to blend in with an environment that we don’t blend in with. Therefore, if we’re wearing some sort of camouflage every day then we’re probably not happy with ourselves any day.”

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“In trying to prove ourselves to the world we are in fact trying to prove ourselves to ourselves. And if in fact there’s something that we need to prove, it’s that we don’t need to prove anything.”

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“One of the greatest feats that I can accomplish is to realize how great I am not.”

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“Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.”

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“In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.”

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“Today I must look in the mirror and be thankful for the person who I find staring back at me. For although the reflection is terribly imperfect, and I know that full well, God created it with enough room that one day it would be perfect. And if there is nothing else I can find to be thankful for, let me begin here.”

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“If the answer creates more questions, it’s nothing more than a ‘shot in the dark’ that missed.”

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“For many, God is the greatest annoyance because He has the answers for which we have no answer.”

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“Don’t be so foolish as to think that by ignoring the hard questions life won’t become hard.”

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“Sometimes the answer is less about the answer and more about the fact that we were brave enough to ask the question.”

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“Ask the hard questions. Ask the questions that scare you. Because if you don’t, the question that you’ll soon be asking yourself is “why has life become so hard and scary?”

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“If the questions are based on the answers that I’ve already pre-determined, the only real question left is, “How long do I intend to be a slave to my cowardice and a whipping boy to my greed?”

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“It’s not that we don’t have the answer. It’s that we don’t have the answer that we want. And until we get that, our stance is that we don’t have the answer.”

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“To get an answer I must first ask a question. But far too often I fear both and so I get neither.”

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“Our prayers have two stages. First, we pray for something. And then second, we pray for the courage to deal with the rather shocking reality that the prayer was actually answered.”

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“Sometimes we don’t have the answer because it’s less about getting the answer and more about our unwillingness to acknowledge that we don’t have it and God does.”

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“Ask the questions even if you don’t want the answers. For the answers that we don’t want are often the very things that keep us from doing what we shouldn’t be doing.”

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“We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant or just plain stupid?”

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“I want to ‘think’ that I have all the answers. But if I ‘think’, I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I ‘think’ yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess.”

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“My answers are typically ‘guesses’ cleverly disguised as answers.”

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“Why is it that none of the things I construct ever make me feel safe? The answer lies in the fact that safety can’t be created. It can only be found. And the only thing I've found that’s never been created is God.”

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“If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers.”

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“How can I claim to be the center of my universe when I can’t even conceptualize that which I claim to be the center of?”

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“To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.”

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“I simply can’t look into the heavens on a crisp starry night and somehow bring myself to believe that the gaping expanse that engulfs the whole of me is the product of chance happenstance. And neither can I believe that the gaping expanse that rests within me is anything less.”

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“If the story of your life was all about you, at your death the person who would have found pleasure in reading it is in the same pine box that you are. And the ones who have no interest are the ones shoveling the dirt.”

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“A word is a vessel that carries a thought. And if the vessel is all that we see, then we can read a thousand pages having never read one.”

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“The Bible is a book of wisdom. And unless we are wise enough to understand how wise we are not, the Bible will we read not.”

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“There is a never a cold so deep that a place of warmth cannot be found within it.”

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