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“My passion always runs ahead of my abilities. But in the process of keeping a close second, my abilities get a great workout.”

Passion Calling Driven Mission Hobbies Tenacity Abilities

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I want to have a robust vision for what God can do, but I want to have an equally robust passion to get out of His way so that He can do it.”

God Christian Faith Passion Jesus Calling Mission Partnership Prophecy Faithless

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Reality often holds the facts that we desperately wish to avoid, but at the same time it holds the ingredients of the dreams that we hope to achieve.”

Reality Purpose Passion Hope Dreams Ingredients Avoid

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I don’t know that our dreams died. Rather, I think that they were abandoned because that leaves us with the dream that maybe, in some nearly impossible way we can somehow still achieve the dream, for without a dream it us who dies.”

Death Dies Passion Hope Vision Dreams Abandoned Desires

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Great things are born of common people who understand that to bend to the weight of fear is to crush the dream, but to bend to the weight of the dream is to crush the fear. And it is adhering to the former that keeps them ‘common,’ but it is committing to the latter that renders them entirely ‘uncommon.”

Dream Passion Fear Goal Common Vision Determination Frightened Fortitude Uncommon

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What you hold in your hand is empowered by what you have in your heart. For power that is not infused by passion only has the illusion of power.”

Heart Passion Power Battle Conflict Weapons Illusion Passionate

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“To battle against the heart of my foe is far different than battling against any weapon that they might hold in their hands. And as for my enemy, the same is true for what I hold in mine.”

Heart Passion Enemy Conflict Weapons Foe Adversary

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s not the gifts or the abilities or the talents that equip us to accomplish great things. Rather, it’s the persistent and adamantly stubborn conviction that we will in no way leave the world the way that we found it. And I would rather join hands with a single person of this kind than sit with a million gifted people who are not of this kind.”

Passion Change Commitment Transformation Conviction Gifts Talents Abilities

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“The most spectacular successes arise from those sacred dreams that have been repeatedly bludgeoned by their critics and who’s refusal to fall bludgeons the critics.”

Truth Passion Dreams Critics Goals Criticize Aspirations Attack Bludgeon

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“Destiny suggests that the effect of our life is to exceed the length of our life. Therefore, today never ends with today.”

Passion Destiny Calling Goals Legacy Destination Heritage Mission Aspirations Life Goals

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“I can choose to see a horizon as yet another indistinct place that I can barely make out from where I’m standing, or I can see it as the backside of a glorious tomorrow. And the attitude that I choose to embrace will dictate every horizon that I get to pursue.”

Passion Vision Dreams Future Goals Destination Horizon Mission Challenge Aspirations

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I spend all my time looking in the rearview of my life, I can be going in reverse while simultaneously experiencing the rather convincing illusion that I’m going forward.”

Passion Journey Calling Illusion Goals Deception Backwards Journey Of Life Forwards

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A dream that is not bigger than the resources that we possess to achieve it is not a dream. Rather, it’s an idea that we dressed up as a dream.”

Dream Passion Vision Impossible Calling Mission Idea

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“The statement “this is all the farther I can go” is in fact code for “this is all the farther I’m willing to go.” And if I want to go nowhere in life, all I have to do is keep confusing these two statements.”

Dream Passion Energy Goal Vision Calling Determination Aspiration Tenacity

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“Any dream that is all contemplation and no initiation is only a wish.”

Dream Passion Hope Wish Goal Calling Contemplation Aspiration Mission

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“I probably ‘thought’ myself into the place that I have now ‘found’ myself.”

Wisdom Choices Passion Calling Strategy Goals Decisions Consequences Repercussions

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“My hunger is not for lack of ‘things’ to nurture me. Rather, it’s about the lack of the ‘right things’ to nurture me.”

Passion Hunger Right Lacking Thirst Lack

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“If I were to eliminate all of the things that I ‘want,’ I would be left with all of the things that I ‘need.’ And inevitably, such an action would leave me standing before God caught up in the stunning realization that in Him is everything that I ‘want’ and all that I ‘need.’ And how is it that I could not ‘need’ God and ‘want’ both?”

Needs God Christian Faith Passion Jesus Desires Wants

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“If I fashion a box for my dreams and then carefully pack them away in that box, I no longer have dreams.”

Purpose Passion Vision Dreams Calling Goals Destroy Box Suffocate

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“Too often we are unwilling to ‘look the fool’ in the pursuit of our passion. Therefore, we forsake our passion. And which, we might ask, is more foolish?”

Passion Fool Brave Passionate Goals Foolish Mission Forsake Relinquish

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“The passion of one man will always outrun the intellect of a thousand others.”

Men Motivation Passion Passionate Intelligence Intellect Driven Man Motivated

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“I don’t know that anything really new can be said about love, for something so imposing has long captured the attention and teased the words of untold millions, including myself. But in similar fashion, nothing new can be said of the struggle that I have to live it out in the way that I have so often written it out.”

Love Passion Compassion Sacrifice Caring Compassionate Loving New

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“The songs of the birds are the ballad of the forest. And while we still might have the forest without the songs, we would have lost the story. Therefore, at the point that we lose our song we have likewise lost our story.”

Purpose Passion Calling Singing Meaning Story Mission Birds Forest Ballad

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“If the dream is not bigger than me, I have mistaken an idea for a dream.”

Dream Purpose Passion Vision Risk Calling Daring Idea Visionary Concept

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“I’d rather not write my own story, for in doing so I have assumed that I possess a writing ability equal to that of God. And that assumption will result in a story that is certain to have a bad ending.”

Life God Christian Passion Jesus Destiny Calling Bible Goals Story

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“Love is the only emotion strong enough to sweep us off our feet, but remain unmoved when we are knocked to our knees. And if I am willing to embrace the former but flee from the latter, I’ve confused love with infatuation.”

Love Romance Passion Marriage Sacrifice Commitment Cherish Adore Infatuation Valentine S Day

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“To embrace the magnitude of our destiny, we must at times question its existence in order to become convinced of its presence.”

Passion Challenges Vision Destiny Calling Conviction Goals Possibilities

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“Devastation is in fact the raw material from which the best journeys are forged and the richest roads are paved.”

Pain Purpose Passion Journey Calling Goals Destination Mission Roads

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“Bravery is not the absence of fear, for then I doubt that anyone would be truly brave. Rather, it is passion clothed in determination.”

God Christian Passion Jesus Courage Calling Bible Determination Brave Mission

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Love exceeds all other emotions because it dares to take the passion to give oneself to another and turn it into a decision. Therefore, should the feeling of love ever find itself fleeting, the decision to love won’t.”

Love Passion Decision Compassion Sacrifice Empathy Sympathy Self Sacrifice

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“I spend my day in one of three fundamental positions: sitting down, laying down or standing up. And if I’m at all interested in making any progress in life, I might take a moment and consider the fact that two-thirds of these begin and end in the same place.”

Success Purpose Motivation Passion Ignorance Failure Goals Mediocrity Laziness

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“You have a God. You have a mind. You have a will. And somewhere you have a passion. And if you have enough faith to believe in the first and exercise the rest, you can achieve the impossible.”

Mind God Christian Faith Passion Impossible Calling Jesus Christ Goals Will

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“We must leave the Bible to be what it is, for to reduce it to the stuff of myth and whimsy is take the single and sole hope of a dying humanity and obliterate it. And I would contend that such an action is insanity of the greatest sort.”

Humanity Dying Bible Myth Insanity Whimsy Obliterate

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“The insanity of it all is that the search for that which will fill us incessantly drives us to pursue the very things that will empty us. Yet, the greater insanity is to find ourselves utterly perishing in our emptiness and yet declaring to our dying day that the emptying was the filling. And that is emptiness of the most chilling sort.”

Dying Fool Empty Insanity Emptiness Foolishness Hollow Perishing Unfulfilled

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“Someone one said, ‘I just wanna lay me down and die,’ which implies that they’re currently doing neither. But that doesn’t mean that they’re not living as if they are.”

Life God Purpose Dying Living Goals Die Fullness Exuberance

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“I believe that I would find it a nightmare of the most nightmarish sort to face my dying day suddenly realizing that I had died long before this day arrived.”

Death Loss Sadness Dying Regret Died Nightmare

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“Death looks different when you know that death is not an end; when we realize that death is a passage of really the most glorious kind.”

Death Faith Belief Dying Eternity Glorious Transition Beginning Passage

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Denial that we’re living for some kind of ‘god’ is likely the best evidence we have that we’re dying because of some kind of ‘god’.”

God Dying Living Denial Idols False Gods Idol Worship Godless False Worship

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“The ‘death of me’ is most often caused by the ignorance within me that’s killing everything that God is doing around me.”

God Christian Death Jesus Dying Ignorance Killing Stupidity

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“It’s not dying I’m afraid of. It’s dying without ever having lived that I’m afraid of.”

Fear Dying Living Legacy Surviving Afraid Thriving Existing

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“Every gift that we will ever receive, bar one, will die ‘with us.’ The only gift that died ‘for us’ so that nothing ever need die ‘with us’ is the gift that God handed us on Christmas. And as for me, I done with all the dying.”

God Jesus Dying Salvation Christmas Gift Redemption Savior Rescue Holidays

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“In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.”

God Death Jesus Christianity Dying Passing End End Of Life Cross Concluded

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“Once faith dies, the death of hope follows hard on its heels.”

Believe God Christian Death Faith Hope Jesus Belief Christianity Dying Jesus Christ Hopeful Hopeless Die Hopelessness Follow Faithless Godless Follows

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“Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood.”

Death Fear Wonder Mystery Childhood Dying Child Frightening Adulthood Die Possibilities Kill Adult Amazement Amazing Fearing Suffocate

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we might come to the precious realization of how little we’ve actually lived in the first place?”

Life God Reality Death Teach Dying Awareness Realization Consideration Quality Of Life Precious Aware Realize Show Reveal Consider Allow Lived Instruct Allows Illustrate

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The worst of it is that while we continue to sink deeper into the muck and mire that we’ve created, in the very descent itself we ignorantly declare that in reality we are rising. And until desperation has crippled us sufficiently to confess the lie that we are lifting ourselves out of this mess, and until the panic of utter hopelessness has driven us to completely surrender all of the pathetic contrivances that we’ve fashioned that have put us there, we will never realize that God has readied solid ground that stands but a single step away”

“Death reminds us that life is a temporary privilege, not an endless right.”

Death Opportunity Dying Privilege Gift Temporary Right Entitled Entitlement Temporal

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.”

Success Death Growth Loss Grief Dying Failure Grieving Opportunities Possibilities Maturation Forward Gain Maturing Backward

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To only see ‘death’ in death is to somehow assume that death itself is a barrier so abrupt that God Himself is halted by it. To see ‘life’ in death is to understand that death is a sprawling horizon to a new beginning that God created long before death ever thought to show up.”

God Christian Death Christianity Dying Eternal Bible Eternity Horizon Beginning Start Fresh Start Terminal Finality Begin Obstacle Final Barrier Conclude

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Maybe the truth of it all is that we’re just too fearful to give our faith enough running room to realize that this precariously thin path that led us to the end of this life is dwarfed to obscurity by the infinitely vast byway that begins immediately on the other side.”

Life God Death Faith Path Dying Conclusion Obscure Termination Byway

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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