Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough

"I am thankful that sacrifice is non-negotiable, and that counting the cost in giving to another is foolishly assuming that we can put a price on sacrifice."
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"I am thankful that sacrifice is non-negotiable, and that counting the cost in giving to another is foolishly assuming that we can put a price on sacrifice."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To put others in front of ourselves is to put God in front of everything."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Good tells us that our agenda is the agenda of the person next to us."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"There’s something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The service of self terminates at our own death."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Being our best involves walking away from every situation with less than what we had when we encountered it because we left something behind in the exchange."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"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."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron’s I can think of."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The only things I truly keep are those things that I give away."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I have in that question revealed the need to ‘return’ that question to wherever I found it and have the word ‘return’ edited out of it."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn’t have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Faith revels in the liberating fact that only a terribly miniscule part of life lies within the constricted confines of my reach, and that I am graciously invited out to live in a place beyond my grasp."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Often we don’t see the majesty of God’s design because we’re caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The problem that I think I have with God is often not a problem at all. Rather, it is most frequently a tired misperception where I have made God what I need Him to be in order to justify my rejection of Him."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"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 of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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