“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
“Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.” — 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
“We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving.” — 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
“If we’re really to give ourselves the best of ourselves, we have to be honest with the worst of ourselves.” — 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
“Sacrifice is not setting oneself up to die. It is liberating oneself to live.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — 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 Image
“I’m not trying to save you from yourself. I’m trying to help you save yourself from yourself.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“It’s better to die for what’s right than live for what’s wrong.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
