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The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Book by Craig D. Lounsbrough · 50 quotes · Life, Calling, Belief

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“Sometimes life puts us in places that we had never could have envisioned even in our most inventive moments. And when we arrive in those unexpected places, we have to squint through the windows of our souls and wipe clean the eyes of our hearts, for in our blinding routines and mediocre plots we had not anticipated the need of doing so.”

“When our lives lay in scorched shambles, we cannot allow our lives to take on the identity of the carnage that lies smoldering all around us. Therefore, we must create something that irrefutably declares we are not what lies strewn at our feet. And so, we create successes that declare we are not this! Yet, the carnage remains.”

“Sometimes life abruptly opens up in ways so vast that it engulfs all of our constructs and theories and beliefs in the swiftness of that single moment. At times such as these, life does nothing less than demand a brutally exacting reconstruction of everything that we’ve expended the raw essence of our lives constructing.”

“Pausing and scanning the landscape for a moment, he turned back to little David and with a subdued voice said, “You just have to have hope in something bigger than people, that’s all. You have to have hope in something that’s so big that if everything you’ve got is taken from you, you’ll always have more than what was taken.”