The Christmas story is penmanship of the most brilliant sort, where God crafted a beginning that would never be subject to an ending.
– Craig D Lounsbrough
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- Easter says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- We can’t even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all. – Martin Luther
- Although I’ve been thoroughly conditioned by pain to see it otherwise, an ending is nothing more than the backside of a beginning. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Christmas is not a story birthed of a humanized god for it simply doesn’t fit into the rubric of such an emaciated plot. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story. – Isaac Babel
- It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn’t let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt. – Maggie Stiefvater
- Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. – Osho
- Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant. – Don DeLillo
- When we wallow in anxiety and doubts, we subject ourselves to fear. When we focus on the greatness of God, we make fear subject to faith. – Katy Kauffman
- I say that my value is based on my accomplishments. Christmas is God saying that I am His accomplishment and that will forever be enough. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Christmas is everything that God would do, and nothing that we would imagine Him doing. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Christmas was an ingenious plan designed by God to lay siege to the hearts of all men by submitting Himself to the greed of all men. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Christmas is God saving mankind from the folly of mankind’s grandiose sense of greatness. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- When two warring people face each other, the war of words jumps beyond the subject. The subject remains no more central to the arguments. – Girdhar Joshi
- The rule is that when one’s mind is controlled in a specific subject, he can control the other person’s mind in that subject. – Dada Bhagwan
- The subject of heaven is much easier to accept than the subject of hell. And yet the Bible teaches both. – Billy Graham
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- Can’t say I’ve ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending. – Neil Gaiman
- I just knew. There was no movie ending. There was only an ending. – Alex Flinn
- I’ve always wanted the happy ending, but now I’ll just settle for the ending. – David Levithan
- Now I just want it to end. I’ve always wanted the happy ending, but now I’ll just settle for the ending. – David Levithan
- The worst defeat of all is to surrender without having been defeated. And it is Christmas that obliterates both. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- The art of living is to rise above lesser things so that we can truly enjoy great things. And the message of Christmas is the greatest of all things. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Christmas embodies everything that I need. However, everything that I need is often made up of a lot of stuff I don’t want. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- More often than not, rejecting rescue is in reality rejecting our need to be rescued. And it may very well be that is why so many reject Christmas. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Christmas is a bold act of emboldening sacrifice and the most selfless gift ever granted the rebellious lot that we are. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Maybe the greatest hope of Christmas is that what it purports to be is exactly what it is. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- But you’ll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning. – Lisa Daily
- Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is – don’t give it up unless you’re willing to give him up. Not in the beginning. Sex is power! – Julieanne OConnor
- Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn’t make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.-Soothsayer – KungFuPandaMakers
- All story fiction is both truth that happens and never happens. Fiction is always about humanity, even if no subject is humanitarian or even human. – Richard Bunning
- That we don’t remember the beginning or the ending of dreams is our unconscious reminding us that it’s all about the process. – S Kelley Harrell
- Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. – Jack Kornfield
- Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning. – Robin Hobb
- A new beginning is better than an old ending – Bathsheba Dailey