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“Sometimes it’s my sense that the mountains in our lives don’t wish to repel us through our fear of their peaks and crevices. Rather, they present us with the opportunity to overcome that fear by inviting us to scale their peaks, forge their crevices, and to suddenly find ourselves walking through the listless valley that lays on the other side of a range that we never thought ourselves capable of traversing.”

Faith Hope Fear Challenges Confidence Determination Fortitude

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I too often live my life on what I’ve borrowed, for I fear that I cannot create these things of my own. And because I borrow, in time I am left with ‘nothing’. And if there’s one thing I don’t have to borrow, it is ‘nothing’.”

Life Fear Live Create Nothing Borrowed

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“God’s eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us.”

God Fear Deception Selfishness Pretending Actions See Deceptive Pretend Discern

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“If I am swallowed up in the bowels of negativity, and if the world seems eternally dark and forever foreboding it is likely that I have recklessly abandoned any notion of thankfulness. It is entirely likely that I have set the whole of my mind on what I don’t have, constructed the essence of my attitude around what hasn’t worked, and fashioned a vision for my future on the cold corpses of the many dreams that died horrific deaths. Yet, if I dare to be thankful for the fact that what I do have will always outweigh what I don’t, that everything that didn’t work places me one step closer to that which will, and that the death of one dream creates a space for the birth of a greater one, negativity will perish, light will dawn, and I will never fall to any of these things again.”

Hope Fear Attitude Dreams Perspective Gratitude Thanksgiving Thankful Hopes

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It comes down to 'fear' and 'faith'. 'Fear' of what stands in front of me. 'Faith' in believing that the resources I possess can handle what stands in front of me. If I stop at the former, I will change nothing. If I embrace the latter, I can change everything.”

Faith Fear Self Esteem Failure Limits Disappointment Self Confidence Mediocrity Talents Limitations

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“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the home of the hero.”

Home Faith Fear Bravery Brave Flight Insanity Coward Cowardice Fortitude

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“Fear is a lethal killer of dreams, the greatest cancer that has beset passion, and a ruthless thief of lives stolen and buried in the decay of lives squandered. Yet the greatest tragedy of all is that the fear that destroys us is rarely the monster it pretends to be, nor does it possess anything close to the power that we grant it. Therefore, it is only a killer, a cancer and a thief because we empower it to be so.”

Fear Power Cancer Frightened Fearful Empowered Intimidation Destroy Deceptive Killer Thief Deceive Intimidate

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“The bane of my fear is that it compels me to avoid everything that I fear, which means that I’m going to avoid just about everything in life.”

Life Fear Frightened Avoiding Avoidance Bane Compel

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“What is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.”

Fear Powerful Power Fool Horror Scared Scary Deception Fake Convince Frightened Scare Fraud Fearful Convincing Deceived Fooled Deceive Frighten Fraudulent Horrified

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“I have no interest in being safe. I do however, have every interest in being wise. The former is averse to going forward, while the latter is averse to anything but going forward.”

Fear Safety Frightened Mediocre Apprehension Withdrawal Forward Wise Wisdom Avoidant

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“I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong.”

World Fear Protect Prison Protection Isolation Hiding Fearful Panic Shelter Retreat Imprisonment Incarceration Recluse Lock Isolate Withdraw Withdrawn Seclude Incarcerate

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“More often than not, bad things only seem big because they talk themselves up in our head.”

Fear Frightened Bad Afraid Paranoid Exaggerated Worse Catastrophic

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“I wouldn’t suggest that we fear the past. Nor would I suggest that we find ourselves frightened by the future. Rather, I would suggest that we learn from the former to enhance the latter. And not to do that would be the thing I’d fear.”

Past Opportunity Fear Future Present Possibilities Learning Opportunities

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“At what point will I realize that a commitment to self-preservation is in reality an act of self-suffocation?”

Fear Commitment Defeat Frightened Diminish Act Self Preservation Suffocation Minimize

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“Is the goal I’ve set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?”

Fear Goal Goals Objectives Guidance Coward Cowardice Avoidance Goal Setting Fright Avoid Objective Misdirection Misstep

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.”

Men Motivation Fear Greatness Comfort Anger Praise Response Great Things Abandon Challenge Familiarity Intimidating Intimidation Praises Ire Elicit Praise Of Men

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Although it would lead me to believe otherwise, fear has little interest in intimidating me. Rather, it much prefers to enslave me.”

Fear Freedom Slavery Slave Fearful Intimidation Enslavement Intimidate Fearing

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“Every wall that I build to lock the world out is yet another wall that I’ve built that locks me in. And in the most heinous kind of imprisonment imaginable, I find that I have become both warden and inmate.”

Fear Prison Locks Build Walls Lock Captive Imprison Warden Inmate

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“Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to an existence without walls? And if this is so, do I realize that I am the warden of prison that I created in which I myself am the prisoner?”

God Fear Freedom Prison Liberation Frightened Prisoner Fearful Free Bondage Incarceration Walls Captive Warden Incarcerated

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“Whenever I’ve ‘jumped ship,’ I rarely ever land in the water. Rather, I tend to land on another ship that’s in just about as much trouble as the one I just jumped off of.”

Running Fear Abandon Frightened Panic Escape Hide Fleeing Flee Jump Ship

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If there’s any redeeming quality that I can find in running away from something, it’s that I’m on my feet. Now all I’ve got to do is alter my direction.”

Running Fear Change Quality Feet Flight Frightened Fight Cowardice Retreat Escape Direction Fleeing Redeeming Alter Flee

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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.”

Running Fear Denial Frightened Controlled Denied Escape Afraid Withdrawal Run Flee Uncontrolled Unrestrained Harnessed

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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

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

Found Lost Fear Rational Wander Abandon Abandoned Irrational Discover Find Misguided Misled Wandering Locate Paralyzing

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

Fear Difficult Challenges Impossible Justification Fear Of Failure Rationalization Define Fear Of Success

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“To ‘cancel’ someone is a manifestation of our inability to defend our position, which is compounded by the fear that the one that we’re ‘cancelling’ can actually defend theirs.”

Politics Fear Ability Debate Denial Inability Opinions Rejecting Cancel Culture Defend

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“It is in boldly unleashing our faith that we effectively leash our fears.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Fear Courageous Daring Bold Unleash Leash

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“Sometimes we find that responsibly discerning something from a distance is nothing more than cowardice creating an excuse to keep our distance from that which we fear. And when that’s the case, life will shut down our discernment so that we are left with no option but to engage what we would otherwise run from.”

Fear Excuse Cowardice Discernment Flee Shut Down Run From

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“It’s not about the elimination of fear. Rather it’s about the elimination of the feeling that the elimination of fear is necessary before we take the next step.”

Fear Scared Goals Frightened Fearful New Year Direction Elimination Forward Step New Years Day

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“As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.”

“Fear is typically one-part fact and about ten-parts fiction. And that kind of formula grows things real big, real fast.”

Fear Fiction Balance Fearful Frightening Fact Intimidated Imbalance Exaggerate

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Inspiration is understanding that what the world has claimed as dead is nothing more than something that is waiting to be handed the opportunity to transform a world that is petrified of that very transformation.”

Inspiration Fear Vision Transformation Frightened Possibilities Intimidated

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“Running from what we fear is like throwing a bunch of stuff in the bed of a truck and somehow thinking that driving the truck will distance us from what’s laying in the bed.”

Running Fear Foolish Flight Naive Truck Flee Distancing

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“The coward demands to be what they are not because they fear embracing who they truly are.”

God Purpose Fear Creation Identity Coward Pronoun

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“I am terrified by the horrors that lurk all around me. But it would do me good to remember that those same horrors are terrified by the God who resides within me.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Fear Terror Protection Frightened Horrified Horrors

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you keep seeing the same landscape, there’s a good chance that you’re standing at the same place on the same road. And when that happens, we soon forget that roads were meant for traveling, not standing.”

Fear Walking Determination Standing Landscape Traveling Road Stalled

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“To be alone with myself in the space of silence is horrifying, for I know with the utmost certainty that in that space I will hear the very things that I constantly use the clamor to drown out. And so the question becomes, how long can I keep up all the noise?”

Fear Denial Mediocrity Justification Ignore Rationalization Flee Repress Placate Drown Out

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We have forfeited our calling for the simple reason that we’ve ignored the God who says that the ‘possible’ is never bound by the ‘probable,’ and instead we’ve dutifully heeded the god of fear that incessantly says the ‘possible’ is anything but ‘probable.”

God Fear Vision Impossible Duty Calling Fearful Mission Ignored Possible Ignore Fearing Probable

Book:A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus

Source: A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus

“It is not within my power to refuse the journey of life regardless of the nature of my fears or the depth of my selfishness, for the definitions of ‘journey’ and ‘life’ are indistinguishably synonymous. I can however sufficiently inhibit them and amply fight them to the point that I have accepted the journey, but the journey is now solely defined as my effort to forsake the journey.”

Life God Fear Vision Power Journey Goals Selfishness Mediocrity Direction Visionless

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“Our lack of motivation is often based on the fear that we will fail at the very thing for which we were motivated prior to our surrender to fear.”

Motivation Fear Vision Determination Goals Surrender Coward

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“To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and blessed by God.”

God Fear Bravery Mistakes Accountability Justification Projection Shortcomings Rationalization Blaming

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“The most painful kind of pain is to think that the pain that we’re feeling is nothing more than the pain that we’re feeling. For if that is the case, we have completely missed the purpose of pain and there are few things more painful than that.”

Pain Purpose Fear Hurt Loss Depression Anxiety Value Feeling Growth Meaning

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“Doubt is the killer of dreams only because we give it license to kill.”

Fear Vision Doubt Dreams License Kill Aspirations Hopes Killer Apprehensions

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“Fear’s passion is to destroy yours.”

Passion Fear Vision Dreams Frightened Destroy Aspirations Hopes

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“Passion is the match that ignites the kindling of legacy. Fear is the thief of matches.”

Passion Fear Risk Dreams Legacy Risk Taking Thief Matches

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“Comfort is not the place where great dreams die. Rather, it is the place where they were never given the chance to be born.”

Death Passion Fear Born Vision Dreams Calling Mission Die Familiarity

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“Many people like to toss around ideas. But most of them are afraid of actually reaching out and catching one.”

Ideas Fear Dreams Achieve Bravery Visions Catch Seize Grab Risk Taker

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“A delusion is fiction scripted as the fact that denies the facts.”

Facts Reality Government Truth Politics Fear Fiction Lies Distortions

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“The fool believes that pretending can be done with such flair and perceived genius that it can alter the reality of that which it is attempting to avoid in the pretending.”

Reality Fear Fool Foolish Manipulation Pretending Pretend Alter

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