Craig D. Lounsbrough quote: "I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting."

The sacrifice ‘of’ self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the b...
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Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly he...
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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?...
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Fear says that what God has called me to is blatantly impossible. Selfishness says that the cost is ...
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Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at th...
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To only see ‘death’ in death is to somehow assume that death itself is a barrier so abrupt that ...
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If safety is my goal, living life is not.
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Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under it’s own weight and we with i...
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Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away.
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I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I’ve been saved fr...
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If you want to completely destroy a child, all you have to do is mold them into your vision of what ...
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If I’m surprised at where I’m at, it’s probably because I’m not listening to the reality tha...
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It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities.
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I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. B...
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If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike...
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So, there’s this hornet’s nest. And there’s this long stick. And then there’s me. How I walk...
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The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand arou...
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A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north...
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In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, w...
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If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.
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I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something ...
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If I can’t quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that’s killin...
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I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something ...
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If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of...
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We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is...
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We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be.
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The world is shaken by major events, but it is ‘transformed’ by slight subtleties. And while we ...
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I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardent...
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If I can draw the slightest smile across a single face obliterated by pain, in that act I will have ...
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Are my efforts driven by the need to win at all cost, or am I inspired by the desire to hold onto my...
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I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else d...
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The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else ins...
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True peace cannot be found in a ‘place’. Rather, it is found in a Person who can be with you in ...
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Undoubtedly, failure is growth in pain’s disguise.
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We can be seized with panic of the fall, or inspired by the potential that lies within the fall.
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Failure is not the deterrent for the next try. Rather, it is information that empowers the next step...
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As it peaks over the horizon, does not a sunrise whisper the opportunity to try again. And if the da...
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What is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.
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The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.
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Too often we make it more about what stands before us, and we miss all that stands within us.
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Once I realize that the tune I’m whistling in my head is the theme that’s driving my heart, I su...
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It is when I am cold, alone, bitterly forlorn and shuttered from all hope that you will see who I tr...
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Without a doubt, the most ingenious plan I could ever hope to devise would be to trade my plans for ...
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The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning ...
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Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.
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If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligen...
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Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after...
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I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of f...
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Most journeys are armchair calculations strategically charted in some reclined state that are design...
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The problem with the ‘herd’ is that our voice is never ‘heard’.
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If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possi...
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If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look...
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It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my da...
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Easter is the final solution to the finality of death.
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We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and tha...
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The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my pa...
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When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to st...
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Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.
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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 mig...
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The worst of it is that while we continue to sink deeper into the muck and mire that we’ve created...
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I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one...
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I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be abl...
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The only things I truly keep are those things that I give away.
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As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the i...
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My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals.
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Underneath the chaos there stirs a great plan. And it will be birthed only if I give it permission t...
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We work hard to believe that our actions really don’t affect others all that much because we want ...
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I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path. For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatibl...
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At the moment that everything goes dark, the sunset in front of us becomes the whole story. But if w...
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Any dream that I am absolutely confident I can achieve should immediately be discarded for the simpl...
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Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it’s about working to live right.
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We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can...
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Apathy is giving up when we need to get up.
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If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked d...
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Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even ...
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It’s really a rather simple thing to bring balance to my anger. All I need to do is remember that ...
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Undoubtedly, our weariness is not based on the fact that we’re running. Rather, our weariness is a...
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If I’m perplexed by the fact that I’m constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head I’ve determi...
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We look around us and we find ourselves confused as to why the world has fallen into such deep darkn...
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To be found is to be exposed. No wonder so many of us are still lost.
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If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped childre...
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Maybe I've got to be sufficiently broken by life's many broken promises to be sufficiently compelled...
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Easter is a marvelous affirmation of the genius of our design, but it is likewise the blunt acknowle...
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If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjo...
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Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was...
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I do not walk into the storm unless I have been called into the storm. For the former is arrogance a...
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Failure is a friend if we can see past the face of the foe that we project on it.
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Simply giving something ‘a shot’ is not giving something our ‘best,’ for our best is made up...
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Strength other than that received from God is just hype manufactured by men.
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Of course love is blind; it keeps me blind to myself.
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The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunte...
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Often we don’t see the majesty of God’s design because we’re caught up in the mediocrity of ou...
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In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were...
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The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused o...
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It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we�...
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Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. An...
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Eons ago, the creative genius of God foresaw that it would take the shattered pieces of my ‘yester...
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In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.
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The ledger of my life can lean heavy with a prolific array of stellar investments, yet in the tallyi...
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To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the univer...
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If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our...
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Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we ha...
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Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to...
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If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life.
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Love that is fueled solely by feelings will suddenly find itself out of gas on a long road with no g...
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If I must know something in order to believe in it, what I am able to believe in will be severely li...
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To live a fantasy is to avoid a life.
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I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact th...
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You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.
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If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it...
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Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.
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Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pa...
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To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend,...
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I would like to say that I’m sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that...
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The problem is not that we don’t recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don�...
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To grow is not to timidly sit on some safe shore at water’s edge and clumsily grab whatever happen...
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Whatever the depth of our darkness, God navigated it eons before it was dark. And whatever the durat...
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Hate feeds on itself, while love will always find itself fed.
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An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding ...
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Failure is blessing wrapped in the clothing of curse.
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We have forfeited our calling for the simple reason that we’ve ignored the God who says that the �...
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Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.
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If I can somehow focus on the pain of not focusing on my pain, I will soon find that pain healed sim...
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To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone withou...
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The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding st...
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We can fill our lives with ‘stuff,’ but as we do we’re concurrently filling our lives with the...
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Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.
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Sometimes life has to strip us in order to save us.
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If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the f...
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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 rar...
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Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know.
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Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth.
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Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itsel...
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Ignorance is my refusal to think outside the box of my fears.
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To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fic...
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Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.
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My life is too often driven by the fear of the next moment verses focusing on the privilege that I h...
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I’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.
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Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.
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Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?
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The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest r...
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Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we...
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While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort
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Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was no...
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To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad t...
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Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us wh...
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Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it...
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If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I ha...
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The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monume...
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Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utt...
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Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinge...
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Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.
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If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infi...
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And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the t...
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Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.
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To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liber...
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The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.
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My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if ...
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Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or ...
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If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel...
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If truth is relative, then it’s cousin is anarchy.
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I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they ar...
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Raw power without Godly obedience is a long walk off a short conscience.
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The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.
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Only God understands how incredibly far we’ve fallen, and only God understands how incredibly far ...
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If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.
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What would behoove me to instantly declare God not to be God unless He followed my script in some te...
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What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are read...
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The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room f...
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To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in t...
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I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear n...
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I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table...
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Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.
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We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling...
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To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do s...
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True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to...
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I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of t...
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To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than no...
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The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latte...
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The extent of God’s grace always eclipses the extent of my grotesqueness. Therefore, I can never b...
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The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely...
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If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that whe...
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Where am I?” you ask. Where you are is where the things you’ve denied worshipping have taken you...
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Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself int...
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Why am I always lost in the woods?” I yell at the top of my voice! And if I choose to settle down ...
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If my decisions constantly heed the voice of the world, I can be completely assured that I’m going...
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Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of...
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If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thi...
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The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.
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I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores i...
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We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really ‘lived’ a day in our live...
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No person, collection of people, institution, government or organization of any kind can in any way ...
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At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the...
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Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.
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Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it...
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We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts.
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Despite my best effort to make myself as large as absolutely possible, life will always be larger th...
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If your dream doesn't scare you, it's not big enough.
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The legacy I leave will be unimaginably enhanced by the legacies I received. Therefore, I must be wi...
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We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in what...
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I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.

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I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.

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