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“Pronoun abuse is when a politician demands to be identified as a patriot.”

Politics Politician Abuse Patriotic Patriot Demanding Pronoun

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is the state of the heart within us that determines the nature of the triggers we will pull outside of us.”

Murder Terrorism Gun Control Triggers Massacres Carnage Shootings

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“A single tree can create a forest without ever moving from the place where it was planted.”

Tree Seeds Potential Possibilities Create Forest Planted Multiply

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“I would encourage you not to confuse a passing drizzle with a brainstorm. Because if you do, it won’t take a meteorologist to tell you what’s coming, and it’ll take more than an umbrella to protect you from it.”

Wisdom Deceived Discernment Fooled Forecasting Drizzle Brainstorm Meteorologist

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A life of faith is one where we finally acknowledge that our compass never had a needle. And once we begrudgingly acknowledge that, we eventually own up to the fact that we never had a compass to put one in.”

Life God Faith Belief Guidance Compass Direction Oversight Needle

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I cannot tell you that I am owed anything. But I can tell you that I owe everything.”

Giving Greed Appreciation Selfishness Entitlement Contributing Owed

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“Have we ever considered that Godly morals might be the precision-crafted keys that effortlessly turn the tumblers of life? And have we considered that anything else is something like a rough screwdriver trying to force a lock open?”

Godly Values

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“Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.”

Wisdom Wise Fool Impact Foolish Choice Airplane Crash Spontaneous Consequences Discretion Repercussions Impulsive Skydiving Hit Plane Thoughtless Parachute

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Any person of thought will know that we are certain to die at the hands of the reckless. However, that death will be significantly hastened if we somehow think ourselves to be less than reckless.”

Death Reckless Impulsive React Thoughtless Reactive Imprudent

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“Not every battle is a call to arms.”

War Wisdom Fighting Challenges Battle Conflict Battlefield Call To Arms

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“The criteria for being an armchair quarterback is that you don’t need any. The benefit of being an armchair quarterback is that there isn’t any. And the outcome of being an armchair quarterback is that you’ll eventually wear out a bunch of chairs and a whole lot of people.”

Critical Foolish Arrogant Quarterback Disrespectful Benefit Outcome Arm Chair Arm Chair Quarterback

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“If I show up at my own fire, the ‘me’ who needs to be rescued and the ‘me’ who’s doing the rescuing are both likely to get burnt. And the oddity of it all is that if I choose to be my own first-responder, I can get burnt without a fire.”

God Fire Police Egotistical Pompous Self Serving Burnt Paramedic First Responder

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“I wouldn’t suggest that we fear the past. Nor would I suggest that we find ourselves frightened by the future. Rather, I would suggest that we learn from the former to enhance the latter. And not to do that would be the thing I’d fear.”

Past Opportunity Fear Future Present Possibilities Learning Opportunities

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“There’s the old saying of “the blind leading the blind.” But it seems that the one being led is often blind only because the first one claimed to see.”

Ignorance Claims Blind Deception Leading Claim Led

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“When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in the socket. And what I find is that what my argument failed to solve, electricity does quite nicely.”

“Five of the most dangerous words I know: ‘What’s in it for me?”

Belief Opinion Dangerous Danger Perspective Ego Words Greed Selfish Selfishness Greedy Self Centered Egocentric Myopic Self Focused

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Someone, someday will ask who I was. And someone, someday will answer by saying, “Well, look at what he did”. And what I hope I ‘did’ was to leave behind a really good answer.”

Memories Identity Legacy Heritage Accomplishments Recollections Memorials

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If that which was created denies the existence of that which created it, the created will begin a process of rejecting everything associated with the Creator. And in time that will leave the thing created having emptied itself of everything and thereby creating an existence of nothing.”

God Existence Creator Rejection Ridicule Abandonment Nothing Everything Created Emptied

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I want to be careful about how much time I’m spending thinking about ‘what was’ or ‘what might be,’ for in doing so I will spend my life missing ‘what is.”

Life Past Missing Future Present Dwelling Missed

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“If my vision comes to a halt at the surface of a thing, I have missed the whole of the thing.”

Vision Seeing Surface Superficial Lose Forfeit Missed

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“I don’t think that most opportunity is ‘missed.’ Rather, I think it’s forfeited.”

Opportunity Waste Foolish Possibilities Fortitude Forfeit Missed Squander

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“Too often we say what we wished we meant.”

Lying Intention Cowardice Speaking Impulsive Say Disingenuous Misleading

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“One sure way I can avoid facing myself is by refusing to look into the face of God.”

Refuse Denial Avoidance Face Look Avoid Myself Refusing Face Of God

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

“It is in refusing to recognize that we worship something that we move from the worship of that thing to slavery to that thing.”

God Worship Slavery Denial Idols Justification Refusal Refusing

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To heal the pain of another is to heal my own pain. Yet, some of the greatest pain that I can experience is found in refusing to understand this.”

Wisdom Pain Healing Ignorance Stupidity Heal Refusal Restoration Refusing

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.”

Ego Weight Tired Burden Heavy Selfish Selfishness Narcissism Feeding Narcissistic Egotistical Self Serving Egocentric Obese Feed Fatigued Burdened Heaviest Gorging Weighty

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“The question: ‘At what point is my ego finally satisfied?’ The answer: ‘At no point’. And that is the point.”

Ego Selfish Satisfied Sufficient Selfless Narcissistic Needy Self Sacrifice Self Serving Point

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“If I only let God do for me what I do for me, I have made God me. And if I have made God me, I don’t have God or me.”

God Christian Jesus Ego Arrogant Me Self Serving Myself Prideful

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“If we wish to identify the truly great things in life, we can identify them by the fact that no matter how much we are exposed to them or how often we’re privileged to engage them, they remain great despite what our perception of them might do to them.”

Greatness Perspective Perception Great Exposed Grandeur Ignore Grand Minimize

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Any attribute that we have does not possess the power to define itself as ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Rather, any such definition is based solely on what we ‘attribute’ to that attribute.”

Perception Observation Judgement Attributes Talents Abilities Minimize Valuing Devaluing

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“At what point will I realize that a commitment to self-preservation is in reality an act of self-suffocation?”

Fear Commitment Defeat Frightened Diminish Act Self Preservation Suffocation Minimize

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“We dig wells that are less than a stone’s throw away from bubbling springs because we think that digging the well means that we don’t need to rely on the God Who created the spring. Either way, He created the water in both.”

God Christian Jesus Water Spring Rely Reliance Well Dig Lean On God

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“The greatest battles are not fought winning the war. Rather, they are fought keeping the peace.”

War Fighting Peace Struggle Determination Fortitude Battles Fought

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“Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away.”

“When the spoiled child within us is bent on ranting until they get what they want, the best punishment might be to give it to them.”

Greed Selfish Punishment Spoiled Immaturity Rant Childish Spoiled Child

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“Of all the sermons that I heard at church growing up, I can’t remember a single message that was preached in any of them. But I can certainly remember the people who preached them.”

Church Leader Teacher Example Mentor Message Role Model Shepherd Preach Sermon

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The mistake was to think that the hawks were flying under their own power, when in fact they were catching the updrafts created by nature’s power. Therefore, to truly rise is not a product of our own brute force wherein we create the power. Rather, it is a seasoned wisdom that knows where to find the power.”

Wisdom Nature Power Fool Discovery Foolishness Discernment Strategic Shrewd

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“Hatred is that corrosive emotion that erodes a hole in my soul large enough to hold a grudge. And if holding a grudge requires a space that’s made like that, I can’t afford the grudge nor the hatred that creates the space for it.”

Soul Hatred Anger Bitterness Resentment Hostility Grudge Erode

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“Maybe the prayer request that we should start with is that we begin to pray.”

God Christian Faith Prayer Pray Request Begin Prayerful

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“If I lay aside the demands to be the craftsman and embrace the role of being the tool, in the right hands the impossible becomes impossible.”

God Hands Impossible Tools Submit Possibilities Possible Craftsman

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“To gorge ourselves on everything is to walk away with nothing. And maybe that’s part of the reason why we’re always hungry for something.”

Greed Selfish Hungry Selfishness Entitled Self Centered Ego Centric Thirsting

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.”

Freedom Attitude Liberty Perception Negative Slavery Prison Chains Distortion Enslavement Robbery Tyrant Rob Imprisoned Distorted Robbed Skewed Staleness

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?”

“As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn’t have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does.”

Needs Vision Blind Greed Privilege Selfish Rational Selfishness Irrational Desires Greedy Blindness Flawed Wants Possessions Eyesight Inaccurate Skewed

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I am praying failure into your life. And I am not doing that to harm you. Rather, I am doing that to so disgust you with the failed promises of the world that you can do nothing other than turn to the God who has never failed on any promise.”

World God Christian Jesus Salvation Promises Disgusted Failed Repentence

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Is the goal I’ve set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?”

Fear Goal Goals Objectives Guidance Coward Cowardice Avoidance Goal Setting Fright Avoid Objective Misdirection Misstep

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The wisdom to be on the throne of one’s life must surpass the wisdom of the one being ruled, otherwise I will squander the whole of my life in the most appalling ways. By virtue of that reality, I would be wise to get out of the chair and invite God to have a seat.”

Life God Wisdom Wise Ruling Discernment Rule Throne Ruler Invite Seat Squander Appalling

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.”

Men Motivation Fear Greatness Comfort Anger Praise Response Great Things Abandon Challenge Familiarity Intimidating Intimidation Praises Ire Elicit Praise Of Men

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I will eventually come to resemble that which I seek. Therefore, the outcome of seeking the praises of men verses the praises of God begs some serious consideration.”

God Christian Jesus Identity Seeking Consideration Seek Praises

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I find that I spend a tremendous amount of time chasing the praises of men rather than sitting with the praises of God. The former is something I attempt to catch, the latter catches me.”

God Christianity Dependent Validation Reinforcement Catch Praises Pursuing

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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The Eighth Page: A Christmas JourneyRelated source material

An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and JesusRelated source material

Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound LivingRelated source material

An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's SeasonsRelated source material

A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and JesusRelated source material

Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Life's Complex JourneyRelated source material