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The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would b...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the sam...

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The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would b...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the sam...

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The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would b...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the sam...

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There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrif...

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What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what aw...

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When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has po...

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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himse...

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Joseph de MaistreSt Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-pre...

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This is neither the time nor the place, however, to ponder how often the soul, in order to be able t...

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…the worshipers here are not likely to kill one another, they all offer the same sacrifice, and how ...

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José SaramagoThe Gospel According to Jesus Christ

The motto above the lintel of the main entrance was in the raised script of the prayer language: My ...

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And for the first time, I pity her, because when she says love, I think she really means it. For her...

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Kameron HurleyThe Stars Are Legion

I recall the passage in the letter to the Hebrews in which we are reminded that Christ has already d...

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Kathleen NorrisThe Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry

Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. 

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Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a ki...

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Sacrifice: That's what makes our mosaic so beautiful and rich.

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Lee Myung-bakThe Uncharted Path: The Autobiography of Lee Myung-Bak

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantmen...

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That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had l...

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That had day changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had l...

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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grac...

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The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master...

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Rose: A real sacrifice is giving up something you want or enjoy very much, isn't it?Alec: Yes.Rose: ...

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A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including ...

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Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality...

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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires...

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my sit...

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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will...

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Nothing worthwhile is gained without sacrifice.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.The Autobiography of Martin Luther King

You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for.

Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has ...

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Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even fi...

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Michael PollanA Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder

Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their childr...

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There comes a moment when the image of our life parts company with the life itself, stands free, and...

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In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice—he cherishes all ...

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Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her wo...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it...

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Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven

As usual, he saves his wife's for last. He leans on the cane and he looks at the headstone and he th...

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Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to as...

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Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne ...

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A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant a...

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You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth ...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that p...

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Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a fo...

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You know how the story ends. He escaped and went on to become the greatest chief Suntown ever had. H...

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When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices no...

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Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betr...

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In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the ...

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But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin.

The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life....

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I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.

The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice...

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Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news...

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Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices Ihad decided upon, there is always left a trace of...

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It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one'syouthful ideals.

WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We...

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Paul FarmerMountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer

But how will I know who my Soulmate is?” Brida felt that this was one of the most important question...

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I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and lo...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Witch Of Portobello

P29 - the oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fe...

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Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not e...

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And Pantalaimon didn't ask why, because he knew; and he didn't ask whether Lyra loved Roger more tha...

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I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so he...

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Each of you has a personal vocation which He has given you for your own joy and sanctity. When a per...

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Drizzt looked long and hard at the young woman, tje dedicated warrior, and he understood that Danica...

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When civilians are not asked to pay any price, it's easy to be at war - not just to intervene in a f...

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Rachel MaddowDrift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones...

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If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the he...

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Steve did not have a death wish. He had the exact opposite. His appetite for life was so strong, it ...

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Richard BransonReach for the Skies: Ballooning

I expect God to use me, not because of who I am but because of who Jesus is. Not because of what I'v...

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The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate...

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When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the proces...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

There is but one task for all --One life for each to give.What stands if Freedom

A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records befor...

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Salman RushdieThe Enchantress of Florence

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there ...

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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all ...

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Santiago Ramón y CajalAdvice for a Young Investigator

Whatever talent a person has should be dedicated to the rest of humanity - indeed to all living bein...

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NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is ...

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All true love and all sacrifice arein their essence Nature’s contradiction of the primary egoism andi...

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And then I carefully sealed away my heart...

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

Your father... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner.

The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer...

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Søren KierkegaardProvocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immorta...

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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism tha...

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What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it's dearness only that gives everthing its value...

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There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking ...

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