craig-d-lounsbrough Quotes About fear

“I would have sworn that the leap was going to end in disaster. I had applied the rubrics of fear and tediously calculated the nature of the risk, thereby adamantly determining it to be impossible. Yet, high in the lofty branches of the towering maple tree the squirrel leapt, and in doing so made it look effortless. And I thought, “How many times have I applied the rubrics of fear, overestimated the leap, and have therefore chosen to exist in a forest of one tree?” Therefore, my commitment in the coming year is to live in a forest of many trees.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“One of the greatest feats of bravery is to acknowledge the presence of cowardice, but to refuse the possibility of surrender.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The height of the tree is never measured in feet. Rather, it is measured by the courage of those who seek to climb it. Therefore, one tree can have many heights.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The only time that I really lost a war was when I refused to fight the next one.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I would wonder if one of the greatest acts of bravery is to admit that we are not, but to act the part anyway.”

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“It is natural to doubt. It is part of our humanity to fear. But the greater part of us is that which doubts both and fears neither.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The hallmark of all great journeys is the decision to walk directly into that which we would otherwise seek to escape.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is not the presence of fear that bothers me. Rather, it is the cowardice within me that refuses to face the fear. That is what bothers me.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What we should fear the most is fearing what we shouldn’t.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I wonder how often it’s less about getting out of where we’re at, and more about giving ourselves the illusion that we’re trying to get out of where we’re at. And in the scandalous action of trading the fear of what ‘could be’ for the pain of ‘what is,’ we have traded away the whole of our lives.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My passion should be big enough that I fear it, but not so weak that my fear of it becomes the death of it.”

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“Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.”

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“We will understand the depth of our vision when at some point we are finally faced with the price we must pay to achieve it. And when the price comes calling, most visions end up falling.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Maybe we don’t ever feel that sweetly untainted and wholly majestic kind of love that takes every longing captive because we are hopelessly entangled in the illogical fear that despite all of love’s grand goodness, it might not be good enough to keep us safe.”

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Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“A lie is the fear of the truth put to words.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking ‘muck’ across the floor of fact.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren’t true.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“At the point that an organization becomes militant, it has in that act revealed the impotency of its message. For it is apparent that the appeal of the message is insufficient to capture the imagination of the masses. And we would be wise to remember that fear never captures imagination.”

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“If your imagination is bound by fear it will never be free to imagine.”

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“To have a rigorous imagination is to live in ‘what is’ while embracing all the possibilities of ‘what could be.’ To live a fantasy is an attempt to escape both.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I’m pretending I’m either attempting to expand the scope of my world through the magic of my imagination, or I’m attempting to flee the whole of it because of the depth of my fear.”

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“I am amazed that without any hesitation whatsoever I can completely believe myself to be on a grand journey of massive vistas and bold ascents, only to find that they are nothing more than a figment of a frightened imagination that needed a journey but could not admit to the fear of actually taking one.”

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“The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.”

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“The hand of God is wonderfully evident at those times when He pens stories whose lines we ourselves are far too fearful to pen or whose imaginations are far too limited to envision. And I would unashamedly suggest that the Christmas story is that very story.”

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“Fear is often bred of an imagination that couldn’t let something be what it actually was.”

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“How often is my tidy and well-appointed world nothing but the thin veneer of an imagination that I’ve chosen to use in the service of denial, rather than a gift I’ve chosen to exercise out of a passion for change?”

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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

“I would have sworn that the leap was going to end in disaster. Yet, the squirrel made it look effortless. And I thought, “How many times have I overestimated the leap and have therefore chosen to exist in a forest of one tree?”

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“Passion will enlarge your resources ten-fold and reduce your fear by the same.”

Passion Fear Determination Frightened Fortitude

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Eyes honed sharp by wisdom and a heart sufficiently brave to embrace both the glory and the horror of what such eyes are capable of seeing are eyes that give sight to passions once blinded by doubts that glory exists and fear that horror does.”

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“Never allow a dream to die because you fear the price that you will pay in achieving it, for far too many dreams lay strewn along the road of life because the courage to achieve them fell prey to fear of fighting for them.”

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“Comfort is the goal of the man with no vision.”

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“Dreams are the things that remind us that our lives do not need to be lived within the confines of our doubts.”

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“Too often passion is actually flight in disguise and therefore nothing of passion at all.”

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Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“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.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”

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“The ‘facts’ of our existence often have the tire tracks of our ‘fiction’ imprinted all over them. And just as the ‘facts’ begin to raise themselves out of the dirt, we slam the truck into reverse.”

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“Those who stare us in the face and adamantly declare that there is no hope typically do so out of the deeply troubling fear that our passion will be ignited by the reality that it does.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Dear God, make my life one that ignites a passion to live in the lives of those who are considering the choice not to live.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely must not do is to blink first.”

“I cannot be afraid of being afraid. Rather, I need to realize that it is my fear that gives me the energy to wrestle that which I fear into the dirt that is soon to become the road underneath my feet.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I think that it is infinitely wiser to accept the fact that we’re afraid, for in accepting our fear we are in no way granting it the power to crush us. Rather we are finally empowering ourselves sufficiently so that we can crush it.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don’t fear what other people can do. Fear most what you could have done, but didn’t.”

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“If you are a leader who fears the truth so much so that you have to legislate a lie, the truth is that you’re a coward in a suit who votes out of fear.”

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“An ‘established fact’ is most often ‘established’ by our fear of the facts.”

Truth Fear Lies Deception Coward Fact Distortions

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The world screams, ‘Stay down, it’s safer.’ My soul screams, ‘So is being dead.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are readily available to everyone else but me? What really leads me to believe such an atrocious lie is that I don’t believe in myself sufficiently to engage those opportunities in the first place.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I’ve really been doing is running?”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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