craig-d-lounsbrough Quotes About giving

“Throughout our lifetime many people come ‘to’ us. But if they haven’t come ‘for’ us the coming doesn’t matter. And I would have us carefully consider that Christmas is God perfectly doing both.”

“I would much prefer the ‘wealth of impoverishment’ (where I have spent my life giving to others), over the ‘impoverishment of wealth’ (where I have squandered my life giving to myself).”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Some might say that attempting to gain everything is the best way to lose everything. To the contrary, I would argue that if I’ve spent my life trying to gain everything, I never had anything to lose in the first place.”

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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 one of them point back up to where I’m standing.”

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“To take any return that I might derive from my investment in the life of another, and to immediately invest that return back into that life is to turn an investment from a mere contribution that sustains a life, to an act of selfless humanity that transforms a life.”

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“The mark of a hero is that they run into harm’s way for a singular agenda which no other lesser agenda is given room to contaminate. And that agenda is the preservation of the life of another, even if the choice of running into harm’s way means that they themselves will not be able to run out of it.”

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“The people around you are the assignments that have been handed to you. Therefore, never forget the privilege of the assignment, and never shoot for anything less than an ‘A.”

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“If we view the person next to us as an obstacle to our goals and fail to realize that they are the goal, we have become the obstacle.”

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“Love other people first, and you will have loved yourself best.”

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“I have found that in meeting people where they are at, we are taking ourselves from where we have lived out our days to where we can now live out our lives.”

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“Sacrifice is the only sensible vocation.”

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“I suppose that Christmas seems vexingly improbable in my mind because God did something for all of mankind that I’m too selfish to do even for myself. But isn’t that the exact reason why we need Christmas?”

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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 safer, a hunger satisfied, a house warmed, poverty brought to its knees, a dream brought to reality, a wound healed, a need met in whatever way that need is met. We labor to leave those for whom we have labored enriched in ways that could not have been possible were it not for our labor. Therefore, we would be wise to remember that it is in the sweat of our labors that we have the privilege of leaving the imprint of our legacies.”

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“Sacrifice is realizing that the depth of my need can only be quenched by giving away the soul of myself.”

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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 God that I might be less like myself and more like them.”

“Believe in humanity, for humanity has the ability to do great good even if that humanity chooses not to act on it.”

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“Remember that your greatest responsibility is to those around you, and the responsibility to the person within you is fulfilled by committing to this truth.”

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“Self-care’ always translates to ‘other-care’ unless I’m so selfish that I ‘don’t care’. And if that’s the case, then neither matter.”

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“Rich is the person who thinks beyond their own lives and lives in like manner.”

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“I suppose that part of the gift of life is the opportunity to make it a gift for the ‘others’ in our lives. For then, no one is without a gift.”

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“If my actions do not exceed the reach of my grasp, I will have lived out my life in the sphere of self rather than the world of another. And I can hardly define that as living.”

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“So what are you doing here, other than taking up space?” she asked rather snidely. He replied, “I’m using up the space that I’m living in to enlarge the space that you’re taking up.” And after a thoughtful pause, she turned and in a somber tone said, “Then I will start doing the same.”

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“The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.”

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

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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 the assumption of 'entitlement.' And once that happens, I will forfeit the reality of the former which will destroy the assumption of the latter. And in what terribly dark place will that now leave me?”

“The best gifts are those that leave something in the heart of the recipient long after the gift has left their hands.”

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“Do I place more importance on the gift, or what it cost the person to give me the gift? And if I miss the latter because I focused on the former, my own ignorance has robbed me of both.”

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“If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.”

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“If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality completely destroyed our lives.”

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“The true indicator that I love myself is that I choose to love others above myself.”

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“It might be an awfully long road sometimes, but love is awfully long on patience all of the time.”

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“Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it has first looked after others. And help me to realize that anything less is not a heart.”

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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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“Thinking that one can love too much suggests that our own heart is simply too small.”

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“A gift ‘from’ the heart is far different than a gift ‘of’ the heart. For despite the size of the gift, if I have not given my heart I have given someone something that is in fact nothing.”

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“As utterly improbable as it sounds, could my pain in some sense not be my pain at all? In fact, could it be that my pain is the agent that heals the pain of another in ways that their own pain never could?”

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“The gift of self is inescapably precious because you’re the only one who has it to give.”

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“By far, the best way to find myself before I end up losing myself is to put someone else before myself.”

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“In reality, a gift is nothing more than the wrappings within which I have placed myself.”

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

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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 cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.”

“To feed the birds is to enliven the songs that enrich the forest through which I walk. To feed my fellowman is to enrich the world within which I live. And to feed myself is to remind me of the greater need to feed them so that I might be fed.”

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“The apple trees does not need the fruit that it produces. Yet, it gives the entirety of its life over to producing it for those who do. And I often wonder what would happen if we were more like a tree.”

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“Go do something great today. Something that's not pounded out from the podiums of prejudice, or politics, or rank biases stealthy clothed in righteous garments. Go do something great that's rooted in an essential good so deep that such podiums are helpless to capture even the thinnest parts of it. Go do something great today that's so clean and so authentic that the only podium that you find yourself listening to is the pain of the person standing next to you.”

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“Love makes it all ‘not about me.’ And after having spent the whole of my existence making it ‘about me,’ that’s an ‘about-face’ that’s about as difficult as it can get.”

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“I think we fear that if we give ourselves away we are certain to lose ourselves in the giving. And I would suggest that you cannot lose yourself in ‘giving yourself away.’ Rather, you lose yourself when you ‘squander’ yourself away.”

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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 we give risk that much power.”

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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 a wealth so vast that all the portfolios that will ever float the trading floor on Wall Street would, by comparison, be reckoned as nothing. And if by chance we dared to live by this truth, we would in fact would love like none other.”

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“The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.”

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