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“The fool who thinks he’s god will rather quickly discover that he is not, which simply means that the person who was fooled by the fool is none other than the fool himself.”

Self God Ego Foolish Deceived Self Centered Narcissistic Egotistical

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.”

“I can only speak of wonder. But if you are too blinded by the shallowness of men who shout empty platitudes into hungry hearts, my words will be crowded out by the empty platitudes that stole the place in your heart that wonder was created for.”

Men Politics Wonder Ignorance Foolish Deception Majesty Platitudes

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“The power of men is subject to the weakness of men which means that such power will never be powerful.”

Men Ability Powerful Power Weakness Foolish Deception Inability

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“The desires of a man’s heart are many, and far too many of them lead to the exact same cliff.”

Men Wisdom Choices Dangerous Foolish Desires Hearts Passions Cliff

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“Why is it when I pursue the praises of men I find myself with everything that I’ve looked for but nothing that I need? That’s because I have an extraordinary habit of looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place.”

Men Needs God Stupid Stupidity Foolish Foolishness Error Praises Misjudgment Misjudge Misjudging Miscalculate Praises Of God Praises Of Men

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“The wise person realizes that times change. The fool believes that human behavior does the same.”

Humans Sin Wise Generations Greed Foolish Selfishness Human Behavior Depravity Times

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“Sometimes avoiding the consequence is the very thing that I would be most foolish to avoid.”

Growth Learning Lessons Personal Development Foolish Avoiding Consequences Avoidance

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Maybe we need learn that to ‘leave well enough alone’ is to ‘leave’ a situation ‘well’ because we ‘kept our hands to ourselves’ while keeping ‘our greed in our hands.”

Hands Learning Greed Foolish Gossip Stubborn Narcissistic Egocentric Busy Body

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“If we have a gift that we have kept to ourselves, we have perpetrated our own robbery.”

Crime Victim Selfish Foolish Gift Robbery Perpetrator Perpetrated

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“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A pantry neatly stocked to capacity with a colorful array of empty containers might have the appearance of being full, but appearances won’t feed anyone.”

Food Foolish Deception Nurture Fooled Deceptive Appearances Feed Pantry Stocked

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“If life has left me hungry, it’s probably not for lack of food. Rather, it’s likely because I’m eating the wrong food at the wrong table.”

Life Wisdom Choices Food Ignorance Foolish Lifestyle Hungry Unsatisfied

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We have a lot of supply chain issues these days. And if you don’t believe that, take a walk down the ‘common sense’ aisle of our culture.”

Wisdom Culture Stupidity Foolish Common Sense Foolishness Discernment Supply Chain

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It seems that the art of mindless repetition has become a rather well-refined art form these days.”

Wisdom Stupid Stupidity Foolish Common Sense Mindless Art Form

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“Apparently our problem with common sense is that it seldom supports that which we want it to support.”

Wisdom Politics Wise Foolish Common Sense Thoughtful Agendas Discernment

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“The weak-minded must experience the consequence of their actions to understand the foolishness of the choice. However, for the wise it’s not about avoiding consequences. It’s about choosing the right ones.”

Wisdom Wise Foolish Common Sense Foolishness Consequences Discernment Proactive

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“A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn’t help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.”

Wisdom Wise Dog Stupid Ignorance Fool Consequence Cat Stupidity Foolish Ignorant Common Sense Dumb Cycles Repetition Consequences Naive Dogs Cats Repeat Naivete Yard

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.”

“To craft my own morals is to build a rudderless ship in a sea of rocky shoals buffeted by a contrary wind.”

Values Principles Wind Ethics Foolish Morals Ship Rudder Shoals

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When we extend our authorship to the writing of morals and the crafting of truth, we have in fact authored our own ending. And be aware that that chapter will be unexpectedly short, frighteningly dark, it will be written by your choices before you ever have the chance to pick up the pen, and the ink will be indelible.”

Writing Values Principles Ethics Selfish Foolish Author Morals Authorship

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“The times that I have been most vehemently criticized were those times when I had worked to keep people from walking off a cliff that they could not see because they believed that I held a prejudice I did not have.”

Wisdom Values Principles Ethics Criticism Prejudice Foolish Morals Discernment Cliff

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“Despite the insistence of our denial, immoral decisions will always leave us stalking ourselves. And if we are sufficiently foolish to make enough of those kinds of decisions, it will take very little time for the hunt to be successful.”

Christian Values Ethics Selfish Foolish Denial Morals Immoral Stalking Hunt

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I don’t necessarily bemoan tragedy. Rather, what I bemoan is our seemingly inbred refusal to be accountable to the choices we’ve made that have caused those tragedies.”

Fool Ethics Tragedy Responsible Foolish Disaster Denial Morals Accountable

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“When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.”

Wisdom Fall Wise Ignorance Fool Ethics Stupidity Foolish Ignorant Judgement Morals Impulsive Discerning Whimsy

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“The greatest power of all is having ‘all power’ but choosing not to use it.”

Wisdom Powerful Power Patience Foolish Caution Discretion Use Of Power

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“Patience is where we choose to enjoy the view instead of run off the cliff.”

Wisdom Patience Calm Foolish Thoughtful Greedy Impatience Cliff

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“I can rush off a cliff or I can build a bridge across it. And if you look around, we seem to be awfully light on bridges these days because we’re incredibly limited on patience.”

Wisdom Stupid Patience Foolish Bridges Thoughtful Impatient Reflective Cliff

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“If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.”

“The carnage of our lives can burn hot in the flames of our indiscretions, the greed that hung us on the very leash that we thought we had firmly secured around it, or the fool within us that thought ethics to be the hiding place of the visionless coward. And over time we have come to believe that the resultant carnage of these horribly errant ideologies carries a finality so irreversible that our lives have no hope of being anything other than the ash and smoke that we have recklessly turned them into. Yet, Easter is sufficiently formidable to raise ashes into lives of astounding beauty and turn smoke into the fragrance of hope eternally reborn.”

God Wisdom Choices Hope Jesus Salvation Foolish Redemption Easter Consequences

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“True power does not rest in our ability to destroy something, for the fool can do that with little effort and no thought. Nor does true power rest in our ability to restore something once it’s destroyed, for that simply involves taking what we’ve done and walking it backwards. Rather, true power rests in the ability to render destruction as the thing that never happens.”

Wisdom Power Salvation Foolish Redemption Discernment

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“We reject that which would save us out of the misguided illusion that we can handily save ourselves. Yet, we plummet in the embrace of such an illusion only to deny the fall and justify the brutality of the impact. Staggering and blinded, we raise ourselves up from the carnage, lean on the crutches of weakly fabricated philosophies, and declare the illusion of self-serving savior once again. And until we relent and embrace the Savior born at Christmas, falls will be our lot, carnage our companion, and misery our destination.”

God Wisdom Christian Politics Jesus Salvation Foolish Christmas Redemption Savior

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“The only time that God will kneel in the face of our selfish choices is to lift us out of the consequences of those choices.”

God Choices Healing Salvation Selfish Foolish Redemption Rescue Consequences

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“How do I come to believe in God? Immerse yourself in the alternatives.”

God Christian Faith Choices Jesus Belief Salvation Foolish Redemption Alternative

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“The pit is of my own making. The rescue is of God's love. And the deliverance is my acceptance of both.”

God Wisdom Christian Faith Jesus Belief Salvation Foolish Redemption Rescue

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The exercise of our freedoms as driven by the dictates of our greed will eventually undermine the very structures that gave us the ability to exercise those freedoms. And I for one do not wish to expend my life fighting to regain the freedoms that we never should have lost because we chose to be the fools that we never should have been.”

Politics Freedom Loss Liberty Abuse Greed Selfish Foolish Agendas Liberal

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Weary’ is what I will most certainly be if I try to do everything ‘for God’ or ‘without God’ instead of being in partnership ‘with God.”

God Christian Jesus Ignorance Independence Foolish Partnership Weary Everything

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If there is any evidence that points to the existence of God, it is found in man’s incessant desire to be ‘god’ and his repeated failure to be anything but men who wish to be what they are not.”

God Christian Jesus Wish Independence Foolish Arrogance Idols Existence Of God

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good.”

“If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.”

“Our society seems something akin to an auditorium full of people holding drums. And the insanity inherent in this scene is that every person is clutching stacks of blank sheet music, no one knows what a metronome is, and none of these apparent musicians have a lick of musical experience. And in the deafening chaos of the acoustic bedlam that fills every corner of that room, every single person is voicing the incessant demand that everyone else in the room march to the beat of their own particular drum (even though they’re entirely uncertain as to what that beat is). And in the ensuing pandemonium, the beat that I’m going to march to is the one that marches me right out of that room.”

Culture Music Society Foolish Confusion Control Anarchy Demands Drums

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Too often we allow the lyrics to sneak in under the melody.”

Music Awareness Foolish Deception Propaganda Subtle Lyrics Covert Sneaky

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“The graveyards of our lives are filled with things that should have never died because we gave birth to an arrogance that should have never lived.”

Death Loss Foolish Idiot Arrogance Dead Graveyard

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The world is crying out for the very thing that it is shutting out. And what is worse than crying for the very thing that you’re denying?”

Ignorance Foolish Denial Rejection Need Crying Ignore Denying

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You can parade your mouth around all day, but that doesn’t mean that you were ever in a parade or even anywhere near one.”

Talking Pride Empty Foolish Propaganda Meaningless Mouth Gibberish

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“If you’re going to ‘run your mouth,’ at least don’t run it in circles.”

Wisdom Politics Talking Communication Foolish Gossip Slander Mouth

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you keep your mouth closed more than you keep it open, there’s a whole lot less opportunity to put your foot in it.”

Talking Foolish Arrogant Embarrassment Mouth Impulsive Brazen Reactive Foot Loud Mouth

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“Don’t be so foolish as to think that by ignoring the hard questions life won’t become hard.”

Life Hard Difficult Answers Foolish Denial Questions Consequences Avoidance

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If the questions are based on the answers that I’ve already pre-determined, the only real question left is, “How long do I intend to be a slave to my cowardice and a whipping boy to my greed?”

Answers Ignorance Ego Slave Greed Foolish Selfishness Cowardice Question

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