I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“Without sacrifice, there is no freedom. Without freedom, there is no life. God bless them who give their all for us.” From… — Greig Beck Copy Share Image
“You might have Bible verses on the wall in every room of the house and yet the unspoken rituals reinforce self-centeredness rather… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Much later, when I understood what perfection was, I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Witch' is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare the dog-snot out of kids,… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
You must give what will cost you something. This, then, is not just giving what you can live without but what you… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It breaks my heart to see the person I love happy with somebody else. But it would break my heart even more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it. — Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon Copy Share Image
“Hard decisions, sacrifices doesn’t keep you warm at night, life’s too damn short, too damn long to continue without someone at your… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I can be anything and nothing, and everything at the same time. It all depends on the role I am in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which… — Edward Dmytryk Copy Share Image
“I wanted to give you everything. To withhold nothing from you. Then one day there was nothing left to give.” — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Who is Jesus to me? Jesus is the Word made Flesh. Jesus is the Bread of Life. Jesus is the Victim offered… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If Christ seldom makes offers without demands, He also seldom makes demands without offers. He offers His strength to enable us to… — John Stott Copy Share Image
It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master's degree. I'm glad I didn't know when I gave birth… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
If God would grant us the vision, the word sacrifice would disappear from our lips and thoughts; we would hate the things… — Nate Saint Copy Share Image
“Offering a sacrifice of righteousness in the heat of the moment requires the water of the Spirit to be included into the… — Evinda Lepins Copy Share Image
“The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Do you know the first thing Jesus did with that meager offering? He looked up to heaven and gave thanks to God… — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually. — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
“All the world seemed suddenly dream, for in what waking world would a prince deceive his own people for the benefit of… — Rachel Haimowitz Copy Share Image
If we are perceived by the rest of the world as employing a double standard in the way that we pursue the… — David D. Cole Copy Share Image
Nothing has changed in Russia since Ivan the Terrible when it comes to the divide between the people and the state. The… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
God sacrifices his life, his body and everything he can for us, so don't waste your life, give something to him too. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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