{"quotes":[{"text":"Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["arrogance","calamity","christian","christianity","ego","ego-centric","egotistical","god","great","greatness","greed","jesus","jesus-christ","men","narcissism","restrain","restraint","sin","stubborn"],"id":8508,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["agenda","cliff","compass","danger","dangerous","destination","direction","ego-centric","fall","falling","greed","greedy","guide","justification","justify","legitimize","map","north","rationalization","rationalize","risk","self","self-centered","selfishness","stupid","stupidity","true-north","wisdom","wise","wise-up"],"id":150062,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"My rather arrogant attitude deludes me into believing that my ability to understand something is the criteria for its legitimacy. And if there’s one thing in my life that I don’t understand yet I allow to be legitimate, thinking this way would most certainly be it.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["arrogance","confining","confused","deluded","ego-centric","fool","legitimate","limited","prideful","understanding"],"id":254104,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["correct","create-created","ego","ego-centric","egotistical","fool","fooled","foolish","misguided","misinformed","narcissism","narcissistic","problem","problems","self-destructive","self-sabotage","solution","solutions","solve","stupid","stupidity","think","thinking"],"id":360629,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["alone","ego","ego-centric","fan","greed","greedy","lonely","narcissism","narcissistic","self","self-centered","self-love","selfish","stadium"],"id":378636,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"If I see God as nothing more than a caricature of history or imagination I cannot do anything less than make myself my own ‘god’. And once I realize that in doing so my rendition of being a ‘god’ is embarrassingly inferior to the very caricature I am mimicking, I quickly come to realize that maybe the only thing that can be ‘god’ is a God. And if that is the case, I suddenly find myself hounded by the stunning reality that God is not a caricature.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["arrogance","arrogant","caricature","christian","christian-life","christianity","ego","ego-centric","fail","failure","god","history","idolatry","idols","imagination","jesus","jesus-christ","mimicking","narcissistic","reality","self-centered","self-centeredness","selfish"],"id":442949,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}