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“This week God clearly told me to get out of my boxes. And I rather quickly discovered that trading my current box for a bigger one was not what He meant.”

God Christian Faith Fear Boxes Limitations Bold Box

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes the evidence of everything that I wish were not evidence points me to all of the things that I’ve spent my life attempting to build evidence against.”

Fighting Fear Opinion Evidence Attack Defend Defensive Posturing

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“Doubt would hold us hostage to the belief that we are a pathetic compilation of inadequacies. Yet such thoughts are nothing more than the fiction of our fear.”

Fear Fiction Doubt Self Esteem Self Confidence Hostage Inadequacies

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Never fear your pain. Rather, let your pain grow you, for our greatest opportunities for growth rest in our darkest moments.”

Pain Fear Growth Dark Personal Growth Frightened Maturation

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“If we believe that life is limited to what fits into the rubrics of our logic maybe we are afraid of what life is, when maybe we should fear what our assumption of it is.”

Life Wisdom Fear Logic Assumption Foolishness Limitations Rubrics

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“To hide is our insecurities telling God that what we fear is bigger than Who He is. And in this case, maybe we should shoot the messenger.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Fear Faithless Insecurities Messenger

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“Fate’ and ‘coincidence’ are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a ‘greater purpose’, because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a ‘Greater Being’.”

God Purpose Fear Fate Creation Creator Author Coincidence Supreme Being Created Happenstance Intentional Authored Greater Being

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“What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps.”

God Fear Vision Steps Journey Human Nature Confidence Calling Bravery Safety Brave Daring Mission Preservation Tenacity Self Preservation Beginnings Invitation

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“I am coward. But what brings my cowardice into submission is the far greater fear that I will miss out on life if I act the coward.”

Life Fear Living Bravery Surrender Conquer Coward Frightened Submission

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“Is the greatest fear our fear of life, or should it be the fear of not changing life? For the former shuts us down, while the latter shuts down the possibility of being shut down.”

Life Fear Change Living Shut Shut Down

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“It is when we have made the ‘fear of fear’ the thing that we fear that we are no longer living in fear, rather we are living in the exaggeration of fear.”

Life Fear Living Scared Frightened Fearful Exaggeration

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“The only thing that I fear about death is that it will occur before I’ve had the chance to really live. And it is Christmas that hands me the chance to live while it leaves death with no chance to steal any of that from me.”

God Death Jesus Fear Living Christmas Stolen Holidays Steal

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“My life is too often driven by the fear of the next moment verses focusing on the privilege that I have the next moment.”

Life Opportunity Fear Chance Journey Possibility Future Living Privilege Driven Frightened Fearful Possibilities Moment Consumed Journey Of Life Frighten Next Moment

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“The more we construct lives that prioritize safety, the bigger the prison we construct around ourselves.”

Fear Risk Security Safe Living Safety Prison Goals Frightened Stability Fearful Create Lives Imprisonment Prioritize Build Construct Captive Assemble

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.”

“To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.”

Life Opportunity Fear Stupid Ignorance Living Stupidity Foolish Opportunities Foolishness Possibilities Bypass Miss Intentional Pass

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“Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life.”

Life Fear Security Comfort Safe Living Safety Choice Frightened Stability Choosing Apprehensive

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“Failure is only failure if you focus on what didn’t work rather than focusing on what could if you did it differently.”

Fear Positive Failure Negative Frightened Possibilities Fail

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“Sure we can cut grass. But we can’t even create a single blade of that which we’re cutting. And I often wonder if our inability to create drives our desire to manage which robs us of the ability to appreciate.”

God Fear Creation Ignorance Appreciate Creator Manage Create

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“Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that’s the case, we should get busy returning them.”

Reality Truth Fear Fiction Balance Busy Refuse Frightened Borrowed Fears Exaggerated Rejecting Reject Returning Fearing Borrow Exaggerate Inflated

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“I’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.”

Fear Worry Concerned Scared Worried Author Frightened Scare Fearful Create Fears Afraid Cause Created Feed Contribute Frighten Fed Caused Horrified Worrisome

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“If we’re running, the need to run has likely outweighed ample consideration of where we’re running to. Therefore, the goal is not a cherished destination for which we strive, but a panicked reaction for which we will suffer.”

Running Suffering Fear Goals Frightened Reaction Flee

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“If the story of my life falls prey to the fear that roams the back alleys of my heart, it is clear that I have not invited God into the city.”

Heart God Christian Faith Jesus Fear Frightened City

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“The man who waits to know everything is the man who never does anything.”

Success Fear Waiting Knowledge Brave Frightened Fearful Procrastination Bold

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“Selfishness is hunkering down into our own little worlds because we fear that the vastness of the person standing next to us will call out the vastness of the person living within us.”

Self Humanity Fear Selfishness Frightened Self Understanding Ego Centric

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“Self-preservation is to hunker down in the suffocating confines of this infinitesimally tiny existence that I define as ‘me,’ instead of letting ‘me’ run through the infinitely massive expanse of everything that is not me. And if the beast of self-preservation does not permit such freedoms, I will preserve myself to my own death.”

Life Self Fear Growth Freedom Limits Infinite Frightened New Year Preservation Grow Explore Limitations Self Preservation Preserve

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“To love is to risk. To not love is also to risk. Yet when it comes to love, the greatest risk is incurred when we give risk that much power.”

Love Giving Fear Power Risk Sacrifice Caring Vulnerable Cowardice

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“God has placed Himself squarely within the confines of my confines so that within my reach there lays the very thing that I need to break me out of those confines. Therefore, if I remain confined, it may be because I don’t understand that I’m confined. And if I don’t understand that I’m confined, I can be certain that I don’t understand my need for God. And that is likely the greatest confinement of all.”

God Christian Jesus Fear Sin Limits Confined Imprisoned Apprehensions

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“The box that I’ve built around me is equal to the fear that is within me.”

Fear Risk Safety Scared Frightened Fearful Protective Box Risking

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“Any refuge that I create is something akin to a cardboard box in the rain. The harder the rain, the more boxes I go through.”

Fear Rain Boxes Protection Refuge Sanctuary Self Protection Box

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“Fear tells me that while there might be a host of people who wish to stand beside me in times of crisis, the tangled wreckage is sometimes so enormous that the best of their efforts leave them stranded at a great distance. And standing desperately alone surveying the carnage that holds all others a bay, God suddenly taps me on the shoulder, leans over and whispers, 'how about a little demolition?”

“Blindly seeking to destroy what we fear also destroys the opportunity that we have to grow from it. And if there’s something that we should probably fear, it’s being blind and destroying opportunity.”

Opportunity Fear Growth Wise Blind Foolish Destroy Impulsive Self Sabotage

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“It’s never what stands around us. Rather, it’s always what resides within us.”

Character Fear Challenges Bravery Brave Obstacles Maturity Fearful Tenacity

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“Hoarding is holding onto what I can’t keep and all the while convincing myself that I can. And in the end, what I’m really hoarding is my need to believe something at the expense of my existence.”

Fear Existence Objects Health Mental Health Materialism Hoarding Insecurities Accumulating

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“If I’ve not determined a target for my life, then I have neither target nor bullseye. And maybe I’ve not determined a target because the bullseye is not to have one.”

Purpose Fear Destiny Determine Goals Target Bullseye

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“I have no dream,” I repeatedly tell myself. But what I’m really telling myself is that I’m too afraid of the dream that I have to admit that I have it.”

Dream Belief Fear Goal Vision Destiny Doubt Calling Apprehension

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I often ask to what place I am running, for if I am unable to identify that place it is likely that I am running in a circle of the most circular sort.”

Running Fear Goal Destiny Courage Journey Goals Mission Avoidance Run Fleeing Avoid Circle Flee Circular

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“I do not want people to come to Jesus because of the crisis of the moment. That is both shallow and horribly reactionary. Rather, I would want people to allow the crisis of the moment to show them all of the reasons why not coming to Jesus before the crisis was the real crisis.”

God Christian Jesus Fear Crisis Salvation Redemption Frightened Pandemic Reactive

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“Frankly, I’m not all that certain that I would die for me, which makes God’s choice to do so both confusing and beautiful.”

God Christian Death Fear Sacrifice Self Esteem Jesus Christ Self Confidence Redemption Self Less

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“Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.”

God Fear Bravery Brave Fearless Frightened Fearful Afraid Faithless

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“Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?”

Faith Fear Vision Failure Determination Fearless Mediocrity Fearful Tenacity Knocked Down

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“The present is too often squandered grieving the past or fearing the future, which makes the present nothing more than a cheap facsimile of what was or what will be instead of what it could be.”

Past Fear Future Grieving New Year Present Grieve New Years Fearing

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“Loss is an invitation to a journey of unparalleled growth, yet we seldom RSVP the invitation.”

Pain Death Opportunity Fear Growth Loss Grief Vision Grieving Abandoned Possibilities Invitation Losses Invite

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Arrogance is insecurity’s favorite mask.”

Fear Self Esteem Fake Arrogance Insecurity Cowardice Bravado Fraudulent

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“If I make something as small as myself, it will never be as great as I need it to be in order to help me quit being as small as I've chosen to be.”

God Jesus Fear Challenges Self Esteem Self Confidence Small Big

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You, yes you are the impossible waiting to happen. And the only reason that that sounds impossible to you is that you haven’t been daring enough to push the possible out to the point where it becomes what you once mistook for the impossible.”

Fear Change Impossible Dreams Self Esteem Transformation Goals Self Confidence Possibilities Possible

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“Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.”

Fear Impossible Self Esteem Confidence Standing Obstacles Self Confidence Barriers Frightened Fearful Frightening Possible Disillusionment Misguided Disillusioned Stands

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