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I must not imagine what is ‘not’ as a means of escaping what ‘is’. Rather, I must understand what ‘is’ and imagine how I can make it what it is ‘not’.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The world screams, ‘Stay down, it’s safer.’ My soul screams, ‘So is being dead.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Glow wherever you go and let the light of God reflect in the world around you. You carry the light of God and wherever you pass, darkness must flee.Israelmore Ayivor
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Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.Chip Heath
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Running’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do the latter doesn’t replace the fact that I’m constantly doing the former.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?Craig D. Lounsbrough
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We can certainly run from a lot of things. But when we eventually pull up exhausted and entirely out of breath, we are rather shocked to discover that we haven’t been able to create any distance between ourselves and what we’ve been running from regardless of how fast we might have been running and how far we think we might have gotten.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave never having set foot on the stage.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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If there’s any redeeming quality that I can find in running away from something, it’s that I’m on my feet. Now all I’ve got to do is alter my direction.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Fear left unrestrained always leaves us running ‘from’ something. Fear harnessed compels us to run ‘to’ something. And fear denied leaves us running in circles.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I’ve really been doing is running?Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Either we are running ‘from’ what we fear or running ‘to’ what we fear. The former is a choice controlled by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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I often ask to what place I am running, for if I am unable to identify that place it is likely that I am running in a circle of the most circular sort.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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If I’m perplexed by the fact that I’m constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head I’ve determined that being lost serves a greater purpose than being found.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.Unknown
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There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Too often fantasy is not a rich elaboration of life designed to enhance our existence, rather it is our pell-mell escape from life with the intent of exiting this existence. And the most imaginative fantasy of all is to somehow think that I can do that in the first place.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Happiness is.. looking at the closing door, then bolting them from outside and fleeing.Vikrmn
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All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.Nancy Springer
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The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.Haruki Murakami
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Your level is above the reach of the devil... Keep it in mind; as long as you are in the light of God, you bind him (the devil) tight!Israelmore Ayivor
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Information and ignorance are like light and darkness... When light comes into your room, darkness must fly away. When information rules your mind, ignorance finds its way out!Israelmore Ayivor
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There is a payoff for examining the divine author's literary style. It will tell you something about Him. Whereas, Jonah's actions are extensively described and laboriously detailed, God's reactions (although miraculous) are only described in sparse, minimalist terms. God seems much more amused by Jonah than Jonah is with God. Every miracle is directed at Jonah. Yet, very little copy is used to described God's miracles. Although God's miracles are much more astonishing than Jonah's immature fits of rebellion, more copy is dedicated to Jonah. .Michael Ben Zehabe
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Some activities may look attractive, but you don’t have any business dating them, else they break you up. It may be good, but not right. Flee from good things and do right things!Israelmore Ayivor
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Your dominion has nothing to do with a negative person's opinion. Flee from people who only hung on passport-size dreams and you'll see your bigger picture! Go for the big one!Israelmore Ayivor
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The more you run away from the devil, the more you will realize that it is closer to you than before. Don't run away from it; RESIST the devil and it will FLEE from you!Israelmore Ayivor
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Undoubtedly, our weariness is not based on the fact that we’re running. Rather, our weariness is all too frequently based on the fact that many of the things that we’re running from are the very things we should be running to.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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If I’m chasing the wrong thing, what I’m chasing will end up chasing me. And in the end, I’m less likely to be the one doing the catching.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Whatever criticism we may have for Jonah, at least it can be said that Jonah was consistent. This legalistic, over-judgmental, young prophet will consistently proscribe the most severe form of punishment for the guilty--even when the guilty party is himself. The young Jonah hijacks written Torah to condemn everyone--even himself.Michael Ben Zehabe
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To flee from sin is to retain heaven on earthSunday Adelaja
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If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.Abdullah Ibn AlMubarak
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For kids like me, the part of the brain that deals with stress and conflict is always activated... We are constantly ready to fight or flee, because there is a constant exposure to the bear, whether that bear is an alcoholic dad or an unhinged mom (p228)....I see conflict and I run away or prepare for battle. (p246)J.D. Vance
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He wanted to flee in shame, to the kitchenette, to the next room, to the fire escapes and rooftops and the places where the city ended.Garth Risk Hallberg
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To be alone with myself in the space of silence is horrifying, for I know with the utmost certainty that in that space I will hear the very things that I constantly use the clamor to drown out. And so the question becomes, how long can I keep up all the noise?Craig D. Lounsbrough
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I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.Marie Lu
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The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.Travis Luedke