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“Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I’m laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less a lack a power and more a lack of confidence.”

Wisdom Power Sacrifice Confidence Intentional Surrendering Lay Down

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If there’s a reason why I keep my distance from God it probably has something to do with the fact that the closer I am to Him, the clearer I see myself. And maybe I don’t want that much clarity.”

God Wisdom Christian Sacrifice Self Awareness Distance Personal Growth Surrender Spiritual Growth

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“Although we would prefer to tame it, love is less a nice idea and more a commitment to embracing love as far too massive to simply be a nice idea.”

Love Wisdom Power Sacrifice Massive Loving Complex Large

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“If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I have in that question revealed the need to ‘return’ that question to wherever I found it and have the word ‘return’ edited out of it.”

“Too often I’ve decided not to decide for fear that deciding might be a bad decision. But that decision is based on the rant of fear verses the whisper of wisdom.”

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“Rich is the person who stops long enough to listen to a bird sing in the celebration of spring, peer into the deep blue of a drowsy summer sky, draw in the pungent aroma of fall’s leaves, and watch the listless kiss of a winter’s snow. For in doing these you have witnessed that which money cannot purchase and man cannot create.”

Life Important Wisdom Fall Rich Summer Spring Winter Valuable Experiences

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“Risk is where uncertainty meets vision. If we have vision, uncertainty is the confirmation that we’re forging fresh paths through the forest of opportunity. If we don’t have vision, uncertainty is the stop sign at the edge of the woods.”

Wisdom Opportunity Vision Bravery Possibilities Discernment

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“God’s faith in me always dwarfs my faith in Him.”

God Wisdom Christian Faith Hope Jesus Belief Confidence Spiritual Growth

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“It’s not about crafting a ‘failed’ solution. It’s about ‘failing’ to stop crafting ‘failed’ solutions. Yet, such is the destiny of those who have yet to understand that a solution that does not include God solves nothing other than solving nothing. And that is no solution.”

God Wisdom Jesus Failure Solutions Guidance Stubborn

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“Without exaggerating the point, the difference between ‘what I should do’ verses ‘what I want to do’ is quite frankly the difference between success and failure.”

Wisdom Success Failure Greed Humble Stupidity Selfish Selfless Foolishness

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“Starting over is opportunity informed by failure, which is opportunity made intelligent.”

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“We must remember that attacks from without will always pale in comparison to those from within. And as we reflect on 911, we would be wise to consider the fact that the largest threat to our nation today is less the former and more the latter.”

Wisdom Politics United States Foolishness Sabotage Threats Cancel Culture 911 Woke Culture

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“Large or small, I always have a choice. But I also have a choice to think that I don’t have a choice.”

Wisdom Power Influence Stupidity Denial Choice Control Justification Choosing Chose

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“Politics is falling off of a cliff without a parachute while claiming that the first isn’t happening and the second is unnecessary. And as soon as they hit the ground, they're telling the paramedics the same thing.”

Wisdom Government Politics Deception Foolishness Rationalization Distortions Cliff Paramedics Parachute

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“The hardness of the fall will be determined by the hardness of the questions that we refused to ask.”

Hard Wisdom Wise Responsible Refuse Questions Discerning Hardness Accountable

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“If God didn’t design the road, you can be assured that it’s a very short path to a really steep cliff.”

God Wisdom Christian Purpose Jesus Path Arrogance Foolishness Road Cliff

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“Wisdom can never be borrowed, for unless it is earned by stepping into both the floods and fires of life we will spew meaningless platitudes that will drown in the floods and burn in the fires.”

Life Wisdom Foolish Borrowed Earned

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“The fool will tell you that there is no God. Yet, the fool is the one who believes himself to be what he is not, and God not to be what He is.”

God Wisdom Christian Faith Jesus Fool Foolish Denial

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“Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.”

Wisdom Wise Stupid Smart Intelligent Intelligence Stupidity Mistaken Deceptive Deceive Misinterpreted

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“Raw power without Godly obedience is a long walk off a short conscience.”

God Wisdom Christian Christianity Power Conscience Obedience Guidance Godly Discernment Short Obey Guiding

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“Not everything is meant to be explained. However, everything is meant to be experienced. And we would be wise to remember that attempting to explain everything often destroys the experience of all things.”

Wisdom Experience Explanation Enjoyment Leisure Casual Understand Free Spirit Explain

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“Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I ‘see’ is but a single thread and solitary shard of what ‘is’, for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.”

Wisdom Wise Awareness Ignorance Stupidity Decay Foolishness Discernment Vigilance Assumptions Ignore Discerning Aware Acumen Assume

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.”

Thinking Wisdom Ignorance Consequence Stupidity Karma Bliss Thoughtful Think Discernment Repercussions Ignore Discerning Payback Repercussion Blistering

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“Maybe the greatest power of all is the power of restraint.”

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“If I’m going to write something that moves the masses and seizes one’s soul, I have to force myself to sit and watch life long before I ever attempt to sit and write about it. For without the watching the writing doesn’t matter.”

Life Writing Wisdom Author Observing Discerning Attentive Watchful

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“I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill.”

God Wisdom Christian Christianity Opinion Wise Intuition Bias Intuitive Deceived Distortion Rubbish Discerning Rot Distorted Landfill Skew

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“Trying listening with more than just your ears.”

Wisdom Listening Hearing Thoughtful Understand Listen Discerning Perceiving

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“Intelligence without wisdom is knowledge being stupid.”

Wisdom Wise Fool Intelligence Foolish Thoughtful Mature Discerning Perceptive Stupidity Stupid

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“Regardless of how foreboding it might appear, a peak without any altitude is a bump. And how many times have I ambled on top of the latter so I could fool myself into believing that I had ascended the former?”

Wisdom Purpose Challenges Fool Determination Goals Tenacity Peaks Mountaintops Ascents

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“I would encourage you not to confuse a passing drizzle with a brainstorm. Because if you do, it won’t take a meteorologist to tell you what’s coming, and it’ll take more than an umbrella to protect you from it.”

Wisdom Deceived Discernment Fooled Forecasting Drizzle Brainstorm Meteorologist

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“Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.”

Wisdom Wise Fool Impact Foolish Choice Airplane Crash Spontaneous Consequences Discretion Repercussions Impulsive Skydiving Hit Plane Thoughtless Parachute

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“Not every battle is a call to arms.”

War Wisdom Fighting Challenges Battle Conflict Battlefield Call To Arms

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“To heal the pain of another is to heal my own pain. Yet, some of the greatest pain that I can experience is found in refusing to understand this.”

Wisdom Pain Healing Ignorance Stupidity Heal Refusal Restoration Refusing

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“The mistake was to think that the hawks were flying under their own power, when in fact they were catching the updrafts created by nature’s power. Therefore, to truly rise is not a product of our own brute force wherein we create the power. Rather, it is a seasoned wisdom that knows where to find the power.”

Wisdom Nature Power Fool Discovery Foolishness Discernment Strategic Shrewd

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“Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?”

“The wisdom to be on the throne of one’s life must surpass the wisdom of the one being ruled, otherwise I will squander the whole of my life in the most appalling ways. By virtue of that reality, I would be wise to get out of the chair and invite God to have a seat.”

Life God Wisdom Wise Ruling Discernment Rule Throne Ruler Invite Seat Squander Appalling

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.”

“There’s that old saying about ‘stirring the pot.’ And I think that more times than not, we’d be wise just to make soup.”

Wisdom Reflection Soup Sayings Leave Avoid Hands Off Stirring The Pot

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“If I have all of the gear but I can’t bait the hook, the fish have nothing to worry about.”

Wisdom Politics Knowledge Fishing Pretending Politicians Expertise Fish Skill Posing

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“Our conviction that God made a mistake is shaped by our inability to see the utterly ingenious purpose that lays behind His design. And we don’t see that purpose because our focus is riveted on the effort to correct something that was never wrong.”

God Wisdom Purpose Mistake Identity Ingenious Self Understanding Short Sighted Correct Pronouns

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“I had to set the mouse trap three times before I finally caught the mouse. And that’s because I under-estimated the mouse, I over-estimated the trap, and I under-estimated the fact that I over-estimated myself.”

Wisdom Determination Arrogance Discernment Trap Mouse Estimate

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“The reason my life has wandered to nowhere is likely due to the fact that the focus of the moment has dictated the destination of my life, when the destination of my life should have been dictating the focus of the moment.”

Life Wisdom Purpose Lost Goal Focus Wise Journey Fool Calling Foolish Meaning Impulse Destination Mission Moment Life Journey Proactive Impulsive Role Dictating Misdirected Reactive

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“Will it take the death of me to finally learn that the things that I describe as success may very well be the death of me?”

Wisdom Success Death Stupidity Idiot Foolishness Self Destruction Misdirected

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“To incessantly define ‘where we’re at’ as a means of convincing ourselves that we know ‘where we’re at’ suggests that we’re lost about being lost. And while the wilderness of life is teeming with these kinds of people, I have to make certain that I never enter the woods.”

Life Wisdom Lost Foolish Confused Wilderness Deceived Misdirected

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“I would be much wiser to cultivate the tomato plant rather than expend my life attempting to transition it into a stalk of corn. For in the attempt to do so, both will die and neither will feed me.”

Life Wisdom Identity Gender Transition Die Transgender Feed Tomato

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“Sometimes life has to interrupt us sufficiently in order to get itself out of our way.”

Life Wisdom Obstacles Remove Barriers Free Intrusion Life Hacks Interrupt

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“Stubbornness is determination stripped of wisdom.”

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