craig-d-lounsbrough Quotes About god Page 7

“Why in the world have we never found what we’re really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won’t accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need.”

Life Needs God Christian Purpose Jesus Christianity Acceptance Calling Living Jesus Christ Christmas Meaning Live Need Mission Search Holidays Accept Searching

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Maybe the greatest thing that I can be thankful for is the fact that God set aside a generous slice of eternity in order to create a world brimming with amazing things to be thankful for. And because He did, we have fooled ourselves into believing that we had to create the art of being jaded just to cope.”

God Christian Positive Negative Thanks Thanksgiving Blessings Thankful Jaded

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“If I don’t ‘see’ life as a gift I might be ‘seeing’ something, but it’s not life.”

Life God Christian Opportunity Positive Perspective Negative Privilege Point Of View Gift

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“Life without a meaning that’s infinitely bigger than the sum total of my life is certain to calibrate a trajectory to a destination that’s not worth getting to.”

God Christian Jesus Failure Infinite Disappointment Goals Meaning Destination Trajectory

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“No person, collection of people, institution, government or organization of any kind can in any way promise to meet all of my needs for no person, collection of people, institution, government or organization possesses the array of resources necessary to do that. And so, I am left with the reality that either there is a God who can meet all of my needs, or I’ve been stranded in an existence that created me with needs that the existence itself cannot meet.”

Needs God Reality Creation Evolution Empty Disappointment Rejection Hopeless Disappointed Abandoned Hopelessness Intelligent Design Stranded Unmet

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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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“To judge someone is to say that I have the right to define who they are, verses understanding that God has handed me the priceless privilege of discovering who they are.”

People God Humanity Understanding Judging Appreciate Privilege Determine Judgement Discovering Know Priceless Others Discover Judge Judging Others Define Declare

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“To savor the simple privilege that every day I have a sunrise to bathe in, a storehouse of opportunities to romp through, the thick wrap of relationships to keep me warm, a God who meticulously tends to every detail round about me, and it all costs me not a dime. What madness would keep me from being eternally thankful for all that?”

God Relationships Blessing Eternal Appreciate Grateful Thanks Opportunities Free Thanksgiving Blessings Thankful Gifts Gratefulness Privileges

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“God has no interest in doing some slick revisions or innovative tweaks in order to make transformation feel measured and safe. Rather, He’s about delivering a sweeping overhaul to your life that will leave nothing untouched and everything transformed. Therefore, the question regarding transformation is whether we’re brave enough to experience the transformation from which we cannot return but cannot miss.”

God Change Safe Transformation Transform Overhaul

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“One of the greatest ways in which to understand the unsurpassing ingenuity of God is to hold up who we used to be against who we’ve become. But possibly the greatest way to see His ingenuity is to allow what He’s done to begin revealing the vision of where He’s yet to take us. And that is exactly the kind of genius that I will gladly bow before and give the whole of my life to.”

God Christian Purpose Jesus Change Journey Genius Calling Transformation Salvation

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“Easter does not change history. Rather, it transforms what history does to us and what the future can do for us.”

God Jesus Change Freedom History Salvation Redemption Liberation Easter

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“Dear God, give me what I don’t have to do what I can’t do.”

God Christian Change Impossible Calling Transformation Mission Possible

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“To leave someone because their choices demand that we do so is not to give up on them. For even though I may never see them again, dear God you see them every minute of every day. And in the seeing, I ask that You see what I could not, and be what I cannot.”

God Faith Prayer Loss Relationship Rejection Abandonment

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“I can staunchly reject the notion that I was created to live in relationship with God. But should I do that, I will be unable to reject all of the consequences for which I was not created.”

God Christian Purpose Jesus Relationship Salvation Foolish Redemption Reject

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“In a relationship with God, it’s far more about the willingness to be ‘found’ and far less about possessing the ability to ‘find.”

God Christian Found Jesus Lost Relationship Salvation Saved Redemption

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“I must pray with great earnest that God grants me the ability to imagine Who He is, as I am barely able to imagine who I am.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Imagine Relationship Understand

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“If we’ve kept God far from us, we might ask how far we are from just about everything else.”

God Christian Jesus Relationship Salvation Distance Redemption Rejection

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“Of course I can’t reach God. But He can reach me.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Relationship Salvation Redemption Connect Reach

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“I was created for the simple reason that to not be created was unthinkable.”

God Purpose Creation Calling Value Mission Intelligent Design Created Designed

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“God is precise, deliberate and intentional. Therefore, everything He created held sufficient value for Him to create it. And of all things, that includes you.”

God Christian Purpose Jesus Self Esteem Value Self Confidence Create Loved

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“The purpose in our pain will always exceed the amount of pain that was necessary to deliver that purpose to us.”

God Christian Pain Purpose Jesus Value Painful Meaning Purposeful

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“Maybe part of my 'purpose' is to be convinced that I have one so that I can convince others of theirs.”

God Christian Purpose Jesus Destiny Self Esteem Calling Value Mission Personal Value

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“Do not be ashamed of who you are, for in doing so you are not taking into account the majesty of all that you are. And without any shred of doubt I know that you are a person of majesty, for in my innumerable years of working with people I have yet to find even one person who is not.”

God Christian Jesus Value Self Confidence Worth Majesty Creation Of God

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“Look in the mirror. Go ahead and look yet again. And look not at the reflection, for while this body of yours is marvelously complex in ways that continue to elude the reach of modern science, it is but a simple shell that holds the image of God within you. And if the shell is that grand, how much more what God has placed inside of it.”

God Christian Jesus Self Esteem Value Self Worth Worth Image Of God

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“We want to know that our worth is not altogether lost in the vastness of our obscurity. And I find it of tremendous comfort to remember that Christmas was the greatest Being in all of existence being born into the greatest obscurity ever imagined in order to declare that with God, there is no such thing.”

God Christian Jesus Comfort Value Christmas Worth Obscurity Holidays

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“As far my priorities are concerned, there’s the front of the line, the end of the line, and everything in-between. And as far as God is concerned, He spends most of His time waiting to get in line.”

God Christian Jesus Importance Value Priorities Materialism Entitlement Line Godless

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“What's the purpose in all of this if there's not a purpose in all of this?”

God Christian Purpose Goal Vision Calling Jesus Christ Value Meaning Mission

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“I am not the sum total of my accomplishments, for no matter how much I exhaust myself acquiring those accomplishments, the sum total of them will always be far too trifling to ever reflect my true value. My value rests in the fact that I am an accomplishment of God so incalculably valuable that He gave up Himself rather than give me up.”

God Jesus Self Esteem Jesus Christ Value Accomplish Self Confidence Self Worth Christmas Worth Accomplishments Total Exhaust

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“Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in the eyes of God we are worthy of a miracle.”

Believe God Belief Ability Miracle Value Worthy Despite Worth Depravity Depraved Eyes Of God

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“I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest.”

God Christian Choices Poor Self Esteem Hatred Value Self Worth Decisions Choice Author Worth Consequences Better Repercussions Self Hatred Self Concept Deciding

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“It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.”

God Self Esteem Confidence Value Worth Self Doubt Self Perception Self Concept Self Evaluation Comparison To Others

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“I say that my value is based on my accomplishments. Christmas is God saying that I am His accomplishment and that will forever be enough.”

God Self Esteem Value Christmas Worth Accomplishments

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“There is always some sort of call rolling in from distant horizons, heralding something afoot. And these calls are not the things of culture or podiums or platforms, for the calls of distant horizons are far too grand to be held captive to such menial things. Rather, they are the calls of God and life and things majestic beyond imagination.”

God Christian Purpose Destiny Greatness Calling Seasons Ministry Majestic Call

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“Purpose declares that the trajectory of my existence and the course of human history were intentionally set to collide at this precise moment in time because what I have to offer human history is desperately needed at this precise time.”

God Purpose Calling Meaning Mission Call

Book:An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons

Source: An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons

“A life is a precious gift carefully wrapped. But if we never see it as a gift or worse yet we engage it as a troublesome burden, we won't believe that there is anything to unwrap. And I doubt that there are few things worse than living life but never embracing the gift of life.”

Life God Jesus Self Esteem Blessed Gift Potential Talents Self Image Abilities

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“If it’s dependent upon me, it will likely land on you. If it’s dependent on God, you will likely land on it.”

God Christian Jesus Blessing Blessed Surrender Dependent Inability Depending

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“If even for a brief second I could have a sense of God’s faith in me, it would immediately expose my lack of faith in both Him and myself.”

Love God Christian Faith Jesus Compassion Confidence Concern Sense

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“The mind of man is a cistern in a land where it never rains.”

Mind God Wisdom Christian Hope Jesus Water Rain Man Cistern

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“A great mind without God is like a muscle car without a steering wheel. The only thing about it that’s fast is how quickly it totals itself.”

Mind God Wisdom Principles Power Car Ethics Salvation Surrender Morals

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“Maybe the reason that I always need to rest is that I’m constantly trying to create a place where I can rest. And once I rest in the fact that I can’t create a place like that, maybe I’ll finally look for the God who already has.”

God Depression Anxiety Stress Burden Heavy Fatigue Rest Solace Restful

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“If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Prayer Worry Power Alone

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“It is my hope that my life was lived in such a way that hell will rejoice at my death. But if it does, it will have missed the fact that everything that I had written will have left me very much alive.”

Life Writing God Christian Death Hope Jesus Hell Legacy Author

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“I don’t need a rest from God. What I need is a rest from everything that is not God.”

God Care Christian Jesus Peace Christianity Comfort Solitude Protection Rest

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“Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it has first looked after others. And help me to realize that anything less is not a heart.”

Giving Heart God Care Sacrifice Selfish Selfless Sacrificial Care Giving

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“I’ve lost heart more times than I can count. But God has always helped me find it one more time than I can count.”

Heart God Christian Motivation Jesus Determination Surrender Discouragement Distraught

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“God has placed eternity in the hearts of men and has rooted it so deeply that we will never be able to deny His existence with any degree of sustained comfort. And that move was absolute genius.”

Men Heart God Christian Jesus Eternity Denial Rejection

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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 lyrics that I sing in my head dictate the attitude of my heart. And because that’s the case, I’d prefer the music of God to the songs of men.”

Heart God Faith Belief Music Christianity Jesus Christ Songs Head

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“If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.”

“It is in the numbness of our pain that God has created space to do what He could not when everything was noisy.”

God Pain Space Available Hearing Numb Noisy Numbness Hear

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