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Giving Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

39 Giving quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

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When Craig D. Lounsbrough turns his mind to generosity, his words strike a balance between philosophy and everyday practice. This set of 39 quotes offers a nuanced look at how giving shapes relationships and personal growth, inviting readers to consider the subtle ways kindness ripples through life.

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“If I put others first, I will never find myself being last.”

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“The only thing that we should give up on is the idea that we should be giving up.”

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“Apathy is giving up when we need to get up.”

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“If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life.”

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“To ‘give up’ on the idea of ‘giving up’ is the first step in ‘getting up.”

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“If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.”

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“True sacrifice is found in intentionally falling with those who fall, so that in the falling I might pick them up.”

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“We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving.”

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“Leadership is simple. It’s laying down one’s life on behalf of another for no other reason than such an action represents what…

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“As an action, deciding to sacrifice oneself is nothing more than deciding to restore who we are by turning against what we’ve…

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“If you have a hole within you, trying filling the hole in someone else. If you do, in the end there will…

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“Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.”

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“If I am wounded, I have in turn been given the resources needed to heal the wounded person standing next to me.”

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“Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent…

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“If your portfolio is made up of the investments that you have made in the lives of people, you will have amassed…

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“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually…

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“Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for…

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“To be enriched in the giving, I must at the self-same time be completely depleted by it. For if I am not…

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“Throughout our lifetime many people come ‘to’ us. But if they haven’t come ‘for’ us the coming doesn’t matter. And I would…

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“I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of…

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“To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for…

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“There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the…

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“We labor not to accomplish some task, for that is far too simple. We labor so that a child is a bit…

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“As the annual parade was going by, I would lean into Mom and say, “Someday I want to be in a parade.”…

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“If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed…

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“The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.”

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“If you receive a gift without understanding the heart of the giver, you might have received something but it wasn’t a gift.”

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“To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron’s I can think…

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“The kind of new beginnings that transform our lives are less about what we do in our lives, and more about what…

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“Sacrifice is a passion that unleashes everything away from us so that it can be drawn into everyone around us.”

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“I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to…

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“To refuse to sacrifice may in fact be the greatest sacrifice. For refusing to sacrifice means that I willfully throw away some…

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“Authentic love is deciding to live on a one-way street where all the arrows point down the street and not a single…

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“To love is to risk. To not love is also to risk. Yet when it comes to love, the greatest risk is incurred when…

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“Our mission is to be the resource that helps achieve the mission. However, if we make ourselves the mission, we will be…

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“I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.”

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“Sacrifice is to lose something we can see in order to gain something that we can’t. And therein lies the problem. First…

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“Some might say that abundance is not what you hold in your hand, but what you have in your heart. And I…

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“Despite how utterly massive they might be, it is never the size of the arsenal nor the strength of the warrior. Rather,…

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“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.”

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“Death is a reality that calls the rest of life and all of our assorted strivings into sharp relief.”

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“I’m not trying to save you from yourself. I’m trying to help you save yourself from yourself.”

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“The service of self terminates at our own death.”

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“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.”

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“Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.”

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“A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate…

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“It’s better to die for what’s right than live for what’s wrong.”

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“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the home of…

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“Thankfulness acknowledges that we can’t own anything, but we can experience everything. And just knowing that makes me thankful.”

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“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…

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“The measure of who you are will always exceed measurement.”

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“Darkness is the absence of light. Therefore, darkness is always fleeing from where light is and scurrying off to where it is not. So…

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“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…

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“If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.”

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