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

The sacrifice ‘of’ self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice ‘for’ self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.

~ 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

To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit.

~ 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.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For without exception, that is the greatest weapon of all.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.

~ 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.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I would like to say that I’m sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that I’m not?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity to pay for it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ 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

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

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough