craig-d-lounsbrough Quotes About possibilities

“I don’t wish for a perfect life, for in doing so I will have discarded the tremendous opportunities for great good that lay hidden in the greatest bad.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

“Many times there’s only one way to get something done and a thousand ways that it can’t be done. And far too often we can’t see the ‘one’ because we can’t see past the ‘thousand.”

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“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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“God takes the impossible and makes it the inevitable.”

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“Hope is born in simple places to simple hearts that have enough space for a miracle to happen.”

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Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“If I ride the winds of my imagination out to the furthest periphery of my soul their gusts will eventually die and my journey will draw to a halt at some abbreviated horizon. For there is only one wind who gusts who bow to no horizon and who’s course is set to sweep the landscape of the eternal. And that wind is born of a God Who invites us to be swept up into the breeze that leaves every horizon in its wake and eternity riding at its feet.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If God has granted you the ability to think of great things, what would lead you to believe that He somehow forgot to grant you the ability to achieve them?”

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“If you’re going to give your imagination legs and allow it to run, leave your leash at home and do the same with your fears.”

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“Release your imagination to be everything that you don’t believe it could be.”

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“To ask what the limits of our imagination are suggests that we firmly believe in limits, but we don’t have much faith in imagination.”

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“A dream is not simply an idea to entertain a life gone bored. Rather, it is a reality waiting to ignite a world gone dark.”

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“A dream is our imagination waiting for us to be brave enough to pick up a pencil, zealous enough to sketch out a blueprint, determined enough to gather the tools, committed enough to lean into the task, and audacious enough to make imagination the reality that it was always meant to be. For in time, a dream left to be nothing but a dream will eventually leave our souls believing that dreams aren’t worth imagining. And I can only imagine a handful of things as devastating as that.”

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“Dreams were meant to be born, not just dreamt about.”

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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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“If you can imagine something, at least imagine it with legs so that it has a chance to go somewhere.”

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“I’d much rather have all of this be the ‘pigment’ of my imagination rather than a ‘figment,’ for at least it would all have some color.”

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“I must not imagine what is ‘not’ as a means of escaping what ‘is’. Rather, I must understand what ‘is’ and imagine how I can make it what it is ‘not’.”

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“I’m not necessarily excited about the things that I can see in front of me. Rather, I’m excited about the things that I can’t see that lay beyond what I can.”

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“Never settle for what you ‘could’ be.”

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“If I have a passion I can achieve, it’s probably less a passion and something more akin to a hobby, for any real passion must bigger than my ability to achieve it.”

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“To embrace the magnitude of our destiny, we must at times question its existence in order to become convinced of its presence.”

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“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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“We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.”

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“The human brains weighs 2.65 pounds. Yet, the weight of the good or the evil that it can produce exceeds the weight of a million brains.”

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“It is not about what today was. It is about what tomorrow could be.”

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“Tell me it can’t be done and I’m likely to take a shot at it. And that’s not based on arrogance or some inflated sense of grandiose superiority. Rather, it’s based on a God Who says that the impossible is nothing more than surrender in disguise and defeat that was a victory on the way before I got in the way.”

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“A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.”

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

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“The greenhouse overflowed with a dazzling array of beautiful plants. And as I scanned the beauty spilling out of innumerable planters and pots and baskets, I realized that the beauty now on display had always laid in the seeds. And if the seeds had not been cultivated the beauty within would have certainly remained, but it would have remained forever hidden. And I wondered, how many people remain a seed because no one ever stepped up to cultivate them? And because no one did, beauty remained hidden and the greenhouse of our lives were left with a forever hole.”

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“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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“Jesus is waiting for you to realize that the devastating pain of your story holds within its pages the perfect nouns and just the right verbs. And if you lay those nouns and verbs before Jesus, He will arrange them into a story so gloriously mind-boggling that you will be driven to give Him the whole of your story so that there is never a word that He is not in possession of.”

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“If I have faith, what I see as a wall in front of me is in reality a door that will soon be behind me.”

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“The yardstick that we frequently use to determine if something can be restored is based on the handful of inches that we bring to the process, when God shows up with an infinite amount of miles.”

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“If I spend all of my time wondering whether the goal can actually be achieved, I will soon forget all of the far greater reasons why it can.”

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“Behind the mask of pessimism there is nothing more than this pathetic fear that spends every waking moment of its day fearing that we might actually succeed.”

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“Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.”

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“The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.”

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“Our capabilities are never diminished by the fear that claims to shrink them.”

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“The building blocks of greatness always lay in the carnage that we see as the destruction of what we had hoped would be great.”

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“It might be that the vastness of our humanity is held hostage to the fear of its potential.”

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“The impossible is the rumor of the fearful.”

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“We are far too practical, and in our practicality we far too often forget that what is practical is far too limited to open the door to the impossible.”

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Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Today’s headlines need not be tomorrow’s storyline.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It always astounds me that every single human being is blessed with immeasurable potential that is never taken out of the box. But what’s even most astounding is the fact that they don’t even realize that there’s a box to take something out of.”

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“I am confident that God does exactly what He says He does. But I am also sorely aware of the fact that the limitations of my humanity struggle in their ability to embrace the limitlessness of the things He does. Therefore, I am forever thankful that my limits never define His, but that His will never cease to expand mine.”

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“Believe in humanity, for humanity has the ability to do great good even if that humanity chooses not to act on it.”

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“Inspiration is the willingness to believe that the worse things imaginable are the ingredients for the greatest things possible.”

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“The hallmark of great dreams is not their possibility but their impossibility, and the fact that it is the very notion of the ‘impossible’ that inspires us to go and accomplish them anyway.”

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“Being born might not have been a choice. However, living is.”

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