65 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough about Discernment
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As the old saying goes, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” The problem is that too often we assume that we’ve got the right cat, and then we assume that the only solution is to skin it. And once everything mercifully comes to a close, assuming that we’ve made a terrible mess of things is the only assumption that’s not an assumption.
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Anything irreversible should be granted the ‘everything’ of our attention.
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At one time or another someone said to us, ‘What were you thinking?’ And often it’s not that we weren’t thinking. Rather, it was that we were thinking that thinking would get in the way of what we wanted, so we were thinking that it would be better not to think. And I think that all of that is thinking.
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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.
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The weak-minded must experience the consequence of their actions to understand the foolishness of the choice. However, for the wise it’s not about avoiding consequences. It’s about choosing the right ones.
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There’s the old saying about ‘killing two birds with one stone’. However, most of us aren’t paying enough attention to know what the birds are, and even if we did we wouldn’t know where to find the stones. So maybe we should start looking for both.
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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.
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What we describe as ‘plans’ are often the best guess that we have for a situation that we probably don’t understand.
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I would encourage you to always look at the little things, for little though they are, they hold great things. And I would likewise encourage you to pay enough attention to the big things so that you don’t lose the little things that lie within them.
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