Community Quote by Edward Gibbon

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

— James Anthony Froude

Sacrifice is the very essence of religion; ... Without sacrifice there is no true worship of God.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more. The commandment came to sacrifice…

— Yasmin Mogahed

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

— Anonymous

Imam Ali divided people who prey into three parts. First, thee ones who pray to god because they want somthing from him, these are…

— Imam Ali

Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go…

— Anonymous

Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression of loyalty,…

— Xunzi

True worship has less to do with offering sacrifices than with being a sacrifice ourselves.

— Mike Mason

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Groups reward individual sacrifice.”

— Adam M. Grant

Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others by the…

— John Stuart Mill

“The sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky