“If you have not been driven to the end of yourself at some point in your life, it is likely that you… — 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
“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
“If the space that you take up is the sum total of the space that you influence, you have wasted your space… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If there’s a reason why I keep my distance from God it probably has something to do with the fact that the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To give myself over in the service of others may mean that I will forfeit everything that I want, but it also… — 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 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
“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
“My Dad did nothing to elevate himself, for selflessness was a trait within himself that compelled him to live outside of himself.… — 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
“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
“To have a child is to voluntarily bare one’s soul to the angst that arises when we love another human being more… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I only own something because someone somewhere sacrificed in order to create the situation where I have the opportunity to own it.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path. For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible.” — 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
“When we surrender to apathy and expect the world to deliver everything to us, we deliver ourselves to a slow death and… — 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
“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
“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
