{"quotes":[{"text":"I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the very places where society mistakenly says life stores its scraps. And I am constantly amazed that in the treasure trove that surrounds me, I stand in the company of so few.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["authentic","deceived","deception","disciplined","fooled","genuine","gift","gifts","hidden","life","misdirected","misguided","mistaken","scraps","treasure","treasures"],"id":33299,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Disappointment focuses on ‘what is not,’ and completely misses the far greater reality of ‘what now is.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bypass","disappoint","disappointment","discouraged","discouragement","focus","forsake","forsaken","misdirected","misinterpreted","missed","optimism","pessimism","reality"],"id":38605,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["christmas","desire","discover","freedom","futility","god","jesus","jesus-christ","longing","misdirected","rebellion","selfish","selfishness"],"id":92349,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the very thing I used my imagination to avoid.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["avoid","avoidance","death","disappointed","disappointment","duped","imagination","imagine","imagining","journey","life","manipulated","misdirected","mislead","misled"],"id":105439,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"When we stop pursuing God`s purpose, our gifts and talent are misdirected.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["gifts","god-s-purpose","misdirected","pursuing","talent"],"id":131883,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"My worth is not based on the ‘work of my hands’ despite how feverishly I might work and how audaciously successful I might be. Rather, my worth is based exclusively on the astonishing fact that I am the ‘work of God’s hands.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["accomplishments","achievements","feverish","feverishly","god","god-s-hands","hands","misdirected","misguided","misinformed","success","successful","work"],"id":141330,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Being lost without grasping the rather obvious fact that we are lost is by far the best guarantee we have that we’re going to stay lost.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["confused","deceived","disoriented","duped","fact","lost","misdirected","obvious","wander","wandering"],"id":156211,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"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.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["absurd","belief","believe","believing","dumb","error","ignorance","ignorant","impossible","improbable","intelligence","intelligent","judgement","misdirect","misdirected","misguided","mistake","mistaken","smart","stupid","stupidity","wisdom","wise"],"id":162062,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that evil—forces that are good in themselves, though misdirected in their present state. By trying to understand the nature of the power that is back of evil or adversity, you will not form bad ideas, and therefore will feel no bad effects from experiences that may seem undesirable. At the same time, you will think your own thought about the experiences, thereby developing the power of the master mind.","author":"Christian D. Larson","tags":["adversity","effects","evil","experiences","forces","good","ideas","master","mind","misdirected","nature","power","understand"],"id":184279,"author_id":"Christian+D.+Larson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["calling","destination","dictating","focus","fool","foolish","goal","impulse","impulsive","journey","life","life-journey","lost","meaning","misdirected","mission","moment","proactive","purpose","reactive","role","wisdom","wise"],"id":253902,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}