“If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I put others first, I will never find myself being last.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The only thing that we should give up on is the idea that we should be giving up.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To ‘give up’ on the idea of ‘giving up’ is the first step in ‘getting up.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron’s I can think… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The kind of new beginnings that transform our lives are less about what we do in our lives, and more about what… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice is a passion that unleashes everything away from us so that it can be drawn into everyone around us.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To refuse to sacrifice may in fact be the greatest sacrifice. For refusing to sacrifice means that I willfully throw away some… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Authentic love is deciding to live on a one-way street where all the arrows point down the street and not a single… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To love is to risk. To not love is also to risk. Yet when it comes to love, the greatest risk is incurred when… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Our mission is to be the resource that helps achieve the mission. However, if we make ourselves the mission, we will be… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice is to lose something we can see in order to gain something that we can’t. And therein lies the problem. First… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Some might say that abundance is not what you hold in your hand, but what you have in your heart. And I… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Despite how utterly massive they might be, it is never the size of the arsenal nor the strength of the warrior. Rather,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If your portfolio is made up of the investments that you have made in the lives of people, you will have amassed… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To be enriched in the giving, I must at the self-same time be completely depleted by it. For if I am not… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“We labor not to accomplish some task, for that is far too simple. We labor so that a child is a bit… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“As the annual parade was going by, I would lean into Mom and say, “Someday I want to be in a parade.”… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“True sacrifice is found in intentionally falling with those who fall, so that in the falling I might pick them up.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Leadership is simple. It’s laying down one’s life on behalf of another for no other reason than such an action represents what… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“As an action, deciding to sacrifice oneself is nothing more than deciding to restore who we are by turning against what we’ve… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If you have a hole within you, trying filling the hole in someone else. If you do, in the end there will… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I am wounded, I have in turn been given the resources needed to heal the wounded person standing next to me.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If you receive a gift without understanding the heart of the giver, you might have received something but it wasn’t a gift.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Throughout our lifetime many people come ‘to’ us. But if they haven’t come ‘for’ us the coming doesn’t matter. And I would… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Death is a reality that calls the rest of life and all of our assorted strivings into sharp relief.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“I’m not trying to save you from yourself. I’m trying to help you save yourself from yourself.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the home of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“Thankfulness acknowledges that we can’t own anything, but we can experience everything. And just knowing that makes me thankful.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“Do not be fooled. Passive prayers hastily tossed out as some second-thought appeasement at those junctures when life’s more pressing duties benevolently grant us… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“Darkness is the absence of light. Therefore, darkness is always fleeing from where light is and scurrying off to where it is not. So… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
“If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share
