craig-d-lounsbrough Quotes About sacrifice Page 4

“If a father does not altogether embrace a life of uncompromised sacrifice as the core of all principles by which he nurtures his children, he is a father by birth only and no power on earth can ever or will ever make that sufficient.”

Children Father Family Sacrifice Dad Parenting Parents Guidance Child Nurture Daddy Nurturing Fathers Holidays Father S Day

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is our mission to enrich the lives of those around us. Therefore, such an action is not a choice nor does it fall to the bane of our selfish preferences. Nonetheless we presume it a choice that we defer to others who might be more aligned with such ideals. And in doing so we trudge through our lives leaving footprints empty and barren. And should a passerby catch sight of those prints, they might wonder why we were so foolish as to walk in such a way. And if at some point that passerby should happen to be us, regret will be added to the footprints which we already regret.”

Sacrifice Regret Responsible Foolish Bless Help Give Encourage Footprints Enrich

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Too many people are willing to die for the very thing that’s killing them.”

Sacrifice Killing Stupidity Foolish Deception Manipulation Die Irrational Foolishness Illogical

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sacrifice is the giving of self so that I don’t die in the service of self.”

Giving Sacrifice Selfish Priorities Servant Die Self Centered Ego Centric Servanthood

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sacrifice is not setting oneself up to die. It is liberating oneself to live.”

Purpose Sacrifice Calling Die Give Self Sacrifice Liberate Provide

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sacrifice is the pinnacle of our humanity. Yet, so many of us stay in the basement of our greed.”

Giving God Christian Jesus Sacrifice Greed Sharing Pinnacle Sacrificial Basement

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The only things I truly keep are those things that I give away.”

Giving Sacrifice Share Greed Greedy Sharing Give Keep Hold Sacrificial Preserve Retain

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Love both wounds deeply and heals powerfully. And we dare not allow the wounds to crush our belief in the healing.”

Love Giving Faith Hope Healing Sacrifice Wounds Valentine S Day

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I would not suggest that we love without reason or be reckless in our loving. But our definition of ‘reason’ and ‘reckless’ cannot be determined by the price that we might pay in loving those who would do us damage in the loving. Rather, any such definition must be based on the degree to which the person loved might be transformed by the sacrifice we incur in and by the loving.”

Love Hope Healing Sacrifice Loving Valentine S Day

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Love is to bare your soul to a world so rogue that it is certain to shred it. But the coercing hope of just such a soul is that it is in witnessing such a brilliantly defiant act of sacrifice that the conscience of that which is rogue in our world is wrenched free and radically repositioned so as to become the same soul as the one that first bared itself.”

World Love Giving Faith Hope Healing Sacrifice Valentine S Day

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.”

Giving Sacrifice Humility Pride Humble Service Selfless Selflessness Give Servitude Small Serve Large Sacrificial

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Do we give gifts, or do we dispense items? The difference? With the former we’re giving part of ourselves, with the latter we’re not giving ourselves or anything else for that matter.”

Giving Sacrifice Selfish Selfless Items Gifts Give Ourselves Dispense

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Can anything be called an ‘achievement’ if it does not simultaneously enhance the life of someone other than the one who has done the achieving?”

Support Sacrifice Achieve Achievement Encouragement Help Give Enhance

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The world is not mine for the taking. Rather, it is mine for the giving.”

World Giving Sacrifice Generosity Generous Greedy Give Take

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Love understands that if we’re not giving ourselves away what we’re doing is constantly throwing ourselves away.”

Love Giving Sacrifice Waste Selfless Loving Give Squander Throw Away

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

“Leadership is simple. It’s laying down one’s life on behalf of another for no other reason than such an action represents what my existence is all about in the first place.”

Life Giving Purpose Leadership Existence Sacrifice Calling Give Lead

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Giving Different Differences Sacrifice Ego Opposites Selfish Generosity Selfishness Generous Contrast Narcissism Give Narcissistic Spelling Egocentric Spell Sacrificial Contrasts

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Giving Action Purpose Sacrifice Calling Give Self Sacrifice Restore

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To refuse to sacrifice may in fact be the greatest sacrifice. For refusing to sacrifice means that I willfully throw away some of the greatest growth that life has to offer me.”

Life Giving God Christian Jesus Growth Sacrifice Abandon Give Refusing

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

“Despite how utterly massive they might be, it is never the size of the arsenal nor the strength of the warrior. Rather, it is a heart bent on sacrifice that is the most potent weapon of all.”

Giving Heart Attitude Sacrifice Perspective Battle Weapons Priorities Warrior Patriotism Patriotic Patriot Give Memorial Day Arsenal Weapon Priority Fourth Of July Sacrificial

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Love Giving Friendship Family Marriage Relationship Sacrifice Return Bigger Give Partner Road Reciprocity Reciprocal Street Receive Sacrificing Come Back Larger

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain.”

Giving Helping Pain Healing Sacrifice Endure Heal Help Give Enduring

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I am thankful that in the giving we receive, and what we receive is the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we give is always bigger once we’ve given it away.”

Love Giving Sacrifice Give Loving Others Sacrificial Mentality

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We can’t sufficiently define love with our words. Therefore, the only option that we’re left with is to show it in our actions. And if our actions don’t show it, the words don’t matter. Neither does anything else.”

Love Sacrifice Commitment Determination Resilience Actions Loving Tenacity

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What I’m left with when I have nothing left is the satisfaction of knowing that I left nothing for myself in the service of someone else.”

Giving Sacrifice Empty Service Void Selfless Nothing Exhaustion

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Endings press the essence of themselves forward into the emerging embodiment of what is about to begin. And without such a sacrificial endowment, ‘what will be’ would be relegated to the pale uncertainty of ‘what might be.”

Sacrifice Future Beginning Start Ending Stop Pay It Forward

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I am walking a road designed to pave a road that will begin where mine will end.”

Sacrifice Walking Future Legacy Create Road Sacrificial Pave

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The dream that drives me the most is to watch a dream come to fruition in the life of another because I had the privilege of investing in the dream that drove that life.”

Giving Dream Purpose Vision Sacrifice Calling Satisfaction Personal Development Life Coaching

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“History is a vivid declaration of freedoms sought and freedoms denied. Yet, may we be sufficiently brave to be the nation that pens a history where freedom never needs to be ‘sought’ because it has become the indomitable essence of everything that we stand on, stand for, and stand in zealous defense of.”

America History United States Sacrifice Determination Bravery Defense Fight

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Never give yourself to someone without the promise that you’re giving yourself.”

Giving Sacrifice Promise Commitment Faithful Loyal Reliable

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The choice to be bold is not some cavalier notion born of the fictional battles that grant us some needed sense of purpose and duty. Rather, it is the choice to accept a battle that we may not win and to bear the wounds of battle that may never heal.”

Christian Challenges Risk Sacrifice Battle Wounds Combat Fight Fictional

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In making the life of another better, you will have done the same for yourself in ways that are frequently hidden by the sacrifices that were made for the betterment of that other.”

Sacrifice Help Better Betterment Sacrifices Assist

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A true leader will refuse the title but commit to the task.”

Goal Leadership Leader Sacrifice Commitment Determination Title

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Greatness is an unforgiving taskmaster. It demands that I discard all notions of self-preservation, that I lay aside the privilege of this existence and all of the assorted things that this existence affords me, and that in doing so I embrace the understanding that I was given this life for the sole purpose of giving it over to others. And greatness is unforgiving in all of this because greatness can only arise out of all of this.”

Life Giving Leadership Sacrifice Greatness Lead

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I dare not think that I can save that which I refuse to engage.”

Sacrifice Charity Helpful Help Charitable Save Engage

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The mark of a real dream is that it will cost you all of the things that achieving the dream will grant you.”

Dream Vision Sacrifice Cost Determination Goals Fortitude Tenacity

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There are those dubious causes that destroy our lives, all the while leading us to believe that the murder was sacrifice.”

Causes Sacrifice Destruction Murder Foolish Deceit Agendas Questionable

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To refuse the sacrifice of the ascent is to miss the fact that the grandeur of the valley can only be fully appreciated when we see the whole of it rather than spending the entirety of our lives simply walking a part of it.”

Life Challenges Sacrifice Journey Mountain Determination Experience Goals Fortitude Ascent

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Your purpose is the expenditure of self, not the preservation of it.”

Giving Purpose Sacrifice Selfish Selfless Self Sacrifice

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“No purpose ends with you.”

Giving Purpose Vision Sacrifice Calling Selfless Mission Self Sacrifice

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Risk is the test of love’s validity.”

Love Giving Risk Sacrifice Test Risking

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Abandonment is sacrifice thrown into reverse.”

Relationships Sacrifice Greed Injustice Betrayal Selfish Betray Abandonment Self Centered

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I fight battles to help other people fight theirs.”

Giving War Fighting Struggle Sacrifice Combat Fight Battles

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When the purpose of the battle exceeds any benefit that we might derive from fighting it, it is then that we have become warriors of the most warring kind.”

Giving Purpose Fighting Sacrifice Battle Warrior

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you have not been driven to the end of yourself at some point in your life, it is likely that you have not given the whole of yourself at any time in your life.”

Life Sacrifice Determination Fortitude Fatigue Exhaustion

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Giving Helping Sacrifice Helpful Help Partnership Assistance

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The call of fatherhood is in fact a call of sacrifice, not in some heroic sense where a father is lifted high on some glowing pedestal with all of his sacrifices held up to the awe of those around him. Rather, it is a call that will cost him all that he has, that will be absent of accolades, where rewards will be sparse, and where he will someday find himself having spent all, but in the spending have gained everything. And this is the glory of fatherhood.”

Giving Parent Sacrifice Rewards Parenthood Fatherhood

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I’m laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less a lack a power and more a lack of confidence.”

Wisdom Power Sacrifice Confidence Intentional Surrendering Lay Down

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes

Filter quotes by topic

Famous Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes