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“You can’t walk a road that you never chose to pave.”

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“Power for the sake of power serves no one, including the one wielding it.”

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“I had to set the mouse trap three times before I finally caught the mouse. And that’s because I under-estimated the mouse, I over-estimated the trap, and I under-estimated the fact that I over-estimated myself.”

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“Never underestimate your ability to underestimate yourself.”

Self Worth Underestimate Yourself Self Perception Self Examination Estimate

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“The true test of a father’s legacy is that it rests in every life except his own, for to leave a true legacy we must divest ourselves of everything so that the investment in our families can be everything.”

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“Put yourself first and in no time you will be dead last.”

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“Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less?”

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“In most cases, the louder that you’re talking the less that you’re saying.”

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“Fear left unrestrained always leaves us running ‘from’ something. Fear harnessed compels us to run ‘to’ something. And fear denied leaves us running in circles.”

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“Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay.”

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“I don’t settle. Or more accurately, I can’t. To settle is to abandon great things to the death of smaller things. It is to desert what could have been for what never should have been. To settle is to bargain away the wildly rich abilities of our humanity in a ruinous trade-off for a lackluster existence. Settling is to declare an indefensible surrender to the evils of mediocrity at the expense of God’s resplendent and wholly viable vision for this existence of ours. No, I don’t settle because I can’t. And the fact is, neither can you. Therefore, I would suggest that you begin settling your life squarely on the reality that settling is far too unsettling to settle for.”

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“Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I’m ignoring behind me. Instead, it’s most certain to drop it on top of me.”

Hope Challenges Stupid Ignorance Obstacles Stupidity Denial Barriers Retreat Consequences Deceived Avoidance Repercussions Misled Ignore Avoid Misplaced Misleading

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“We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts.”

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“A father of the highest caliber will point the way only because he has walked it beforehand. And in the walking he has meticulously cleared it of all the obstructions that would harm his family in the manner that they harmed him when he first cleared them.”

Father Parent Walking Caliber Obstructions

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“My soul is utterly frantic for that single place of perfect refuge from which I can clearly see the winds rip and hear the tempest tear, yet despite the ferocity of the tumult I rest in such a sublime peace it is as if neither existed at all. And if I have not yet found such a place, it is because I have not yet found God.”

God Fear Peace Security Safety Calm Obstacles Storm Trials Refuge Rest Solace Tumult Winds Fortress

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“Too many words are simply the fodder of syntax and the place-holders of lesser ideals.”

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“After digging a thousand wells of my own and stumbling upon a thousand others dug by the hands of thirsty men, I have yet to realize that the only well that can satiate every thirst is the one that men will never dig.”

Wells Dry Frustration Thirst Digging Futility Thirsty Seek Search Quest Searching Well Quench Dig Dug Satiate Quenching Dryness

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

“The landscape of the world is littered with holes dug by men in search of water for their souls. But it is the hole where the shovels were surrendered to God that mark the end of holes and the beginning of water.”

God Christian Spiritual Jesus Water Holes Thirst Shovels Quench Satisfy

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“To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending.”

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“The reason my life has wandered to nowhere is likely due to the fact that the focus of the moment has dictated the destination of my life, when the destination of my life should have been dictating the focus of the moment.”

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“The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.”

Freedom Liberty Rights Cancer Selfish Selfishness Assumption Self Centered Entitlement Misguided Assume Privileges Misdirected Owed Abuses Abuses Of Freedom

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“Due north’ on my compass is largely ‘due’ to the fact that in ‘due’ time I have been ‘unduly’ lax in recalibrating my compass. And I’m apparently ignorant enough to wonder why I’m lost.”

Lost Goal Journey Stupid Ignorance Fool Goals Foolish Ignorant Wander Destination Foolishness Compass Direction Misled Wandering Map Misdirected Calibration

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“Will it take the death of me to finally learn that the things that I describe as success may very well be the death of me?”

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“To incessantly define ‘where we’re at’ as a means of convincing ourselves that we know ‘where we’re at’ suggests that we’re lost about being lost. And while the wilderness of life is teeming with these kinds of people, I have to make certain that I never enter the woods.”

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“My worth is not based on the ‘work of my hands’ despite how feverishly I might work and how audaciously successful I might be. Rather, my worth is based exclusively on the astonishing fact that I am the ‘work of God’s hands.”

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“Far too often the ‘things’ that men define as success do little more than successfully destroy the lives of the very men who achieve those ‘things.’ And while I must admit that there is an authentic element of success in all of that, it’s the kind of success that I would much prefer to successfully avoid.”

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“If anyone tells me that they’ve created the formula for living, what they’re really telling me is that they’re a fraud who’s deceived by their own fraudulence. And I can’t argue the fact that that’s a formula. But it’s a formula to keep me from finding the formula.”

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“There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If it is our agenda that determines the issue, we are certain to perpetuate the problem that we claim to be solving. And I often wonder if that’s the agenda.”

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“Love is a perpetual journey that is extraordinary because it will never find itself terminated by a destination.”

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“If in fact it’s not too late to realize that something’s ‘too late’, then there’s a good chance that it’s not.”

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“The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.”

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“I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need.”

Needs Greed Selfishness Manipulation Using People

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“Some Goliath shows up every day. And despite the fact that I ran out of stones a long time ago, I keep using the sling. And as I do, amazingly enough the Goliath’s keep falling, for God is the God of giants, absent stones, and empty slings.”

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“Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We are a stubborn people at times, having collided with greatness, yet finding ourselves attempting to revive all the dead things that had gratefully and mercifully perished in the colliding.”

Death Stupid Ignorant Fearful Dead Stubborn Revive Visionless

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“I am most thankful for what I don’t have, for had my life’s wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God’s treasures.”

God Greed Goals Thanks Desires Thanksgiving Blessings Thankfulness Thankful Gifts Self Centered Self Centeredness Treasures Trinkets

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“If I pretend to do great things, the only thing that I’ve done greatly is to pretend.”

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“Indeed, there is a deep melding of our humanity around a shared experience, and in that melding we find profound comfort knowing that we are not alone in the experience of it.”

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Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Too often ‘impossible’ is how we errantly define that which is merely ‘difficult.”

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“When the bottom falls out and you’re in a free-fall, you can certainly pull the ripcord of blame. However, blame never packed a chute because it had no idea that it got on a plane.”

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“Once I realize that my greatest resources are cleverly hidden in the disguise of my many handicaps, I have finally discovered the resources that I thought could only be found in my greatest strengths.”

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“You’ve survived. It may not have been pretty at times, but you survived. And if you have the fortitude to survive, you have more than ample ability to thrive.”

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“If there’s one thing that I’ve repeatedly and rather foolishly forgotten to schedule into my life it is to create times where it’s not scheduled.”

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“If I really believe that my timing is perfect, maybe the thing that’s perfect is my denial about my timing. And if that’s the case, maybe now is the perfect time to be honest about that.”

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“The appetite of my ego always exceeds the grocery store of my soul.”

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“I would be much wiser to cultivate the tomato plant rather than expend my life attempting to transition it into a stalk of corn. For in the attempt to do so, both will die and neither will feed me.”

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“It is those who avoid the spotlight that tend to be doing the greatest things because their hearts are set on avoiding the lesser things.”

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“To subjugate another is to evidence the fact that I have subjugated myself to all of the lesser things that have prompted me to do in the life of another what I have allowed these lesser thing to do in my life.”

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“Ignoring is that magical slight-of-hand where we make something disappear by simply ceasing to acknowledge its existence. But we must remember that slight-of-hand never results in dead-and-gone.”

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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