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“I've been thinking of something your father said - that the true measure of love is what one is willing to give up for it. He was talking about freedom - fighting for liberty. But I believe 'tis th...”
“Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.”
“Was it permitted to believe that there was nowhere upon the earth, or above the earth, a heaven for hogs, where they were requited for all this suffering? Each one of these hogs was a separate crea...”
“It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.”
“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”
“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
“She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. ...”
“It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.”
“Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. Th...”
“Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own goodonly /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?”
“Why you keep telling me to be careful, Old man ?Your stupidity doesn't deserve my sacrifice, Kiddo.”
“If people knew what they were missing, they would give up everything they have to achieve it.”
“I expect God to use me, not because of who I am but because of who Jesus is. Not because of what I've done, but because of what Jesus has done.”
“Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.”
“I don't mind loosing when the other person need for winning is more than mine.....”
“It is the grace of God that frees a soul from selfishness and empowers not just generosity, but sacrifice. And such sacrifice God will not overlook. In faith our giving to meet others needs becomes...”
“Rose: A real sacrifice is giving up something you want or enjoy very much, isn't it?Alec: Yes.Rose: Doing it one's own self because one loves another person very much and wants her to be happy?Alec...”
“Remember, there's sacrifice invovled in any kind of life. Even the man who chooses the safe way has to give up the thrill of combat. The point is that once you know what you want, you must be prepa...”
“Only through sacrifice can Genesis survive.”
“Put your Isaac on the altar! Then, and only then, will you see what God can do. He cannot give back what you do not give up. But if you surrender yourself to Him, He will provide the ram in the thi...”
