craig-d-lounsbrough Quotes About selfish

“My rights do not include the right to do wrong.”

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“Doing nothing but seeking pleasure is an attitude that will bankrupt our souls long before we ever seek out the pleasures that we thought would fill them.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I want what I want! And I want to find what I want in the exact place, at exact time that I want it to be there. And maybe that’s why so many of us go ‘wanting’.”

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“In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow that yesterday would have killed had I had my way.”

“To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it.”

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“If I see God as nothing more than a caricature of history or imagination I cannot do anything less than make myself my own ‘god’. And once I realize that in doing so my rendition of being a ‘god’ is embarrassingly inferior to the very caricature I am mimicking, I quickly come to realize that maybe the only thing that can be ‘god’ is a God. And if that is the case, I suddenly find myself hounded by the stunning reality that God is not a caricature.”

“Frantically feeding all of our assorted passions is failing to recognize that our greatest passion should be to starve them.”

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“Recklessly feeding all of our passions is failing to recognize that our greatest passion should be to starve them.”

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“Greed is the fast-track to poverty.”

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“To be blessed and yet permit gluttony to blind me to the blessings is to banish myself to a life of unrelenting poverty even though I might be utterly engulfed in the embrace of a million marvelous blessings.”

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“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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“If possessing everything is the ‘everything’ of my existence, maybe losing everything is the only ‘thing’ that I really need right now.”

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“Yes, there are times when the world turns upside down, logic becomes subject to the muse of reckless interpretation, truth becomes the bed-child of selfish goals, and people are off on a wild course that bludgeons everyone they once loved or anyone who gets in the way of what they now purport to love.”

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Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“The greatest ‘victory’ in any victory is that I didn’t make it about myself.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I know plenty of people who would be happy to give you the shirt off your back.”

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“Real freedom for most other people is likely being free of my attempts to control them.”

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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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“If the lie becomes our truth, so does our destruction.”

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“Any narrative that we write is a narrative that we will eventually need to be saved from, with the exception of this one.”

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“Greed is everything that it says it’s not.”

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“If I assume the ‘truth’ to be negotiable based on whether or not it serves my agenda, then my agenda has become my ‘truth.’ And the ‘truth’ of the matter is, when I do this I’ve chosen to take a treacherous path through some very deep woods where neither path nor woods exist.”

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“I’m owed nothing, but I’ve been gifted with everything. As such, I owe everything the commitment that I will never find myself treating ‘everything’ as ‘nothing’.”

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“It’s not about working hard. It’s about what we’re working hard about.”

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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.”

“Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature; that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first.”

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Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“To live unto oneself never involves living.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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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“If the outcome of our years lived serves us, I would suggest that we haven’t lived.”

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“To live ‘for’ myself is to live ‘by’ myself. And do I really want to do that ‘to’ myself?”

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“In the midst of our worried searching we recklessly abandon the treasures that life has bestowed upon us in the mad hunt for that which we wish to bestow upon ourselves.”

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“At the very point that I’ve taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I’ve cultivated quite a cemetery.”

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“Richness is not found in changing something that does not suit our preferences or orientation. Rather, real richness is found in understanding there is a definitive purpose that will be sacrificed in the changing that the changing will never make up for.”

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“To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.”

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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 the heart of a man turns toward self he has turned away from all else. And what a pitiful life to have missed the grandness of ‘all else’ for the smallness of ‘oneself.”

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“If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.”

“When will we choose to rise to the greatness embodied in the wholesale expenditure of self, versus choosing to live in the cowardice fed by the preservation of self?”

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“In declaring that there is no God we become our own gods, for the absence of a God does not eliminate our need of one.”

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“Our greatest enemy is devious enough to tell us that we are our greatest asset, and that the investment of the whole of ourselves into the whole of ourselves represents the whole of our life. But what the person in the mirror is not telling you is what kind of ‘hole’ that will actually dig.”

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“Death is rendered tragic when it finds us having expended ourselves in the endeavor of having lived for ourselves. For when it finds us at the end of such a life as this, it finds us in the company of no one other than ourselves. And that alone may be worse than death itself.”

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“Be assured that whatever it is, there will be nothing ‘in it for me’ if I approach it from the perspective of ‘what’s in it for me.”

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“If I’m the only person at my party it’s probably because the party is about one person. And if it’s only about one person, it’s not a party.”

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“The greatest cause involves the decision not to make myself the greatest cause.”

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“Really it’s about God saving me from myself, for if that doesn’t happen ‘first’ then there is no ‘second’.”

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

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“Living for myself ends at myself, and that is very small place to end.”

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“The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me.”

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

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“If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I’m sitting in.”

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