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The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.


Craig D. Lounsbrough

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IRVING S. OLDS The worst of me is the raw material from which God molds the best of me.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others
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VIRGINIA WOOLF WORMS'-MEAT, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material.
AMBROSE BIERCE The great raw material the great use to accomplish great things is nothing but ordinary belief.
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AASIF MANDVI We are doubling our capacity for the raw material over the course of the next three years.
NABEEL GAREEB EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
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WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
RACHEL CARSON Hope is the raw material of losers.
FERNANDO FLORES The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
BRANCH RICKEY Inventory of our thoughts is the raw material We use to carry out planning & executing Tasks
ASHISH SOPHAT We still have the raw material, there is no doubt about that.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Hope doesn’t float. Hope is an anchor forged from the nails that pierced Him and the iron-will tha...
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CHAIM POTOK From small beginnings come great things.
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RICHARD WHITE Beginnings do not divulge their ends,
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YASUHIRO YAMAGUCHI Time is the material from which life is made
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HELMUT PANKE See how they lie against their own souls, and that which they forged has passed away from them.
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BABA KALYANI The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible-that is precisely why they are so...
TA-NEHISI COATES Writers don't forget the past; they turn it into raw material.
JOYCE RACHELLE The genius of the Methodist movement, which enabled it to conquer the raw lives of workingmen in ind...
JOHN L. CASTEEL We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw mate...
DEEPAK CHOPRA From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
ANN VOSKAMP We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our famili...
MAYA ANGELOU We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our famili...
MAYA ANGELOU Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been g...
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EVERETT TUCKER Bodies were strewn every which way.
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RAY BRADBURY Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious
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BILL BURTON In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.
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CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If truth is relative, then it’s cousin is anarchy.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they ar...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Raw power without Godly obedience is a long walk off a short conscience.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Only God understands how incredibly far we’ve fallen, and only God understands how incredibly far ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH What would behoove me to instantly declare God not to be God unless He followed my script in some te...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are read...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room f...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in t...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear n...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do s...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of t...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than no...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latte...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The extent of God’s grace always eclipses the extent of my grotesqueness. Therefore, I can never b...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that whe...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Where am I?” you ask. Where you are is where the things you’ve denied worshipping have taken you...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself int...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Why am I always lost in the woods?” I yell at the top of my voice! And if I choose to settle down ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If my decisions constantly heed the voice of the world, I can be completely assured that I’m going...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thi...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores i...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really ‘lived’ a day in our live...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH No person, collection of people, institution, government or organization of any kind can in any way ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Despite my best effort to make myself as large as absolutely possible, life will always be larger th...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If your dream doesn't scare you, it's not big enough.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The legacy I leave will be unimaginably enhanced by the legacies I received. Therefore, I must be wi...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH 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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