Sacrificial Quotes

“Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I think that my fear of being sacrificial is based on the assumption that I will give away far more than I could ever hope to get back. And while that assumption is blatantly wrong, maybe the greatest thing that I’m doing wrong is that I’m walking around with an assumption.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Too often we define love as something that we feel verses something that we give.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I don’t recognize a gift as a gift it will be something, but it won’t be a gift.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I listened to the breeze gently slipping through the trees and caressing their lush canopies on its way to invisible places. And sitting there, I realized that both were enriched by the journey of the other. And I wondered what would happen if we were to take a lesson from the wind and the trees?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Somewhere along the way, someone sacrificed enough to crush the rot of tyranny in order to plant the seeds of freedom. And if we don’t carefully tend to the harvest we will eventually inherit the tyranny.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Love is a sacrificial Labour.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Some of the greatest accolades that I’ve ever experienced have been those from people that I never knew who somehow figured out what I was doing behind the scenes.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It was in learning to pray for you that I finally began to discover the richness that I missed for all of the years that I wasn’t praying for you. But the prayer of my prayers is not that this richness would rest with me, but that it would be transferred in the fullness of it to you.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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

“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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Love other people first, and you will have loved yourself best.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If they love you, you will know, for love is a sacrificial acts.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Sacrifice is assumed to be the giving away of that which we need for our own survival. But have we considered that survival (in the richest sense of the word) is not based on what we keep, but on what we give away?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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).”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Put yourself first and in no time you will be dead last.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is utterly impossible to throw yourself away in the process of giving yourself away.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s easy to spot a hero. They’re the ones who refuse the title.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“An attitude of thanksgiving will thrive and it will breathe life into any place where a heart of appreciation and gratitude refuses to give way to a brooding sense of entitlement, the scourge of greed, or any other lesser attitudes that keep company with such things.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Leading like a superhero means going that extra, grueling mile for the sake of others. It's being able to demonstrate superhuman endurance, empathy, and selflessness.”
― Sebastien Richard, Lead Like a Superhero: What Pop Culture Icons Can Teach Us About Impactful Leadership

“Serving someone in the most sacrificial way possible is to willingly place ourselves in a position where we may need to be saved from those that we serve, while determining that we will forgo any such saving.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The moon must be willing to illuminate a world that it doesn’t live in, with a light that it didn’t create, from a place that no one wants to visit. Therefore, to change life on earth maybe we need to be more like the moon.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Some might say that abundance is not what you hold in your hand, but what you have in your heart. And I would say that abundance is giving away what you have in your heart so that neither hold anything.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Love is the essence of our humanity expressing itself in actions of sacrifice so profound that we risk not surviving those expressions.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

“We are a nation of bold idealists. Tell us that it can’t be done and we will lay at your feet the very thing that you claimed as impossible. Yet, our generosity and camaraderie as a nation is as bold as our idealism. Therefore, those traits will demand that we never stoop to ridiculing your doubt regarding our capabilities. Rather, they will demand that we be ever-ready to extend you an invitation to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us in achieving the next thing that you state can’t be done.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough