If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ’s transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.

There are greater things to be achieved in every new year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by alot of sacrifices.

I cry, sometimes, because I’m not 20 years younger, and I’m not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

My heart is eternally yours, but my soul will always be hell bound.

Why you keep telling me to be careful, Old man ?Your stupidity doesn’t deserve my sacrifice, Kiddo.

How queerly they dress!

What are you prepared to give for your dream? If it is not everything…stop pipe dreaming.

If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was:...

Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious

I don’t mind loosing when the other person need for winning is more than mine…..

A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids.

Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul.

Nitajisikia raha sana kufungwa kwa ajili ya matatizo watu.

A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.

You know how the Eclipse of the sun shows it? Christ’s strength eclipses your powerlessness in God’s likeness, and there is total darkness on your weakness.

There are people we meet who have but little roles to play in our lives, who happen to be no more than a special appearance to our story.People, who influence, who possess the drift, the...

Sacrifice by its strictest definition takes something precious in exchange for the appeasement of a higher power. And abiding devotion to a cause that cannot be satisfied with a simple promise. Because an oath no...

Each memory rips through me, and although I stow myself against the emotions, I can’t prevent the pain that accompanies each image. Pain for a love never acknowledged, pain for a friendship now gone. Pain...

Use art, be creative. No more war. No more children dying. A pawn that does not move in chess upsets the game. I know there is love in the world still and that is what...

One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction;...

Smaller Is Smarter: Hint, Bigger Is Not

I was raised to believe that God speaks in the language of sacrifice,” he told me, “You are expected to sacrifice because it is the measure of the depth of your belief…

It’s funny, how for an entire lifetime we keep thinking ‘How’ will our life-partner look like, how will he be? How will he react to a particular situation? How will he get angry, and how...

Sweetest of all is liberty. This we have chosen and this we pay for. We have embraced the laws of Lykurgus, and they are stern laws. They have schooled us to scorn the life of...

Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.

P29 – the oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility.

Picture for a moment the scene of a son carrying wood up a hill. He is about to make the greatest sacrifice he can make. Is it Abraham’s Isaac? Or Heavenly Father’s Jehovah? It is...

Why sacrifice some for the benefit of others? It’s generally the best and the bravest who choose to lay down their lives for the sake of those who hide in their holes. So why favor...

My mother wasn’t a fool,” I say. “She just understood something you didn’t. That it’s not sacrifice if it’s someone else’s life you’re giving away, it’s just evil.”I back up another step and say, “She...

So I take my lover, my king, and I put him in a pedestal and I cut him down. A man, like the ones who ruined the world.

How often in life do people make that awful sacrifice, that murder of possibilities?

I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for what will benefit me, dreaming of all I can be. Life is all...

His own true hidden reality that he had desired to know grew palpable, recognizable. It seemed to him just this: a great, glad, abounding hope that he had saved his brother; too expansive to be...

She had seen what it cost him and her heart quickened with compassion. For that alone, she might have loved him almost.

Only those willing to truly risk everything will gain everything. No person ever rose to greatness without the willingness to lose it all.

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson.

Our little tribal circles, bound by social contracts and selfish mutual need. Everyone working in their own greedy self-interests and huddling together with their tribe, at war with all those outside who they regard as...

One must lose one’s life in order to save it.

All salvation is temporary, . . . I bought them a minute. Maybe that’s the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one’s gonna buy them...

When one loves willingly, there is no sacrifice.

In the times of barbaric wars; Love is the most beautiful sacrifice of the world.

Ihr gebt nur wenig, wenn ihr von eurem Besitz gebt. – Erst wenn ihr von euch selber gebt, gebt ihr wahrhaft.

Hundreds of people began to care in a personal way about the suffering of farm workers because they care about you and learned that you were willing to go to jail with striking farm workers,”...

When you know who matters most to you, giving things up, even yourself, doesn’t really feel like a sacrifice.

Through it all, he began to develop a relationship with Avalon. Slowly they became friends; trust blossomed between them and then the plans to save the kingdom developed naturally. If Kiran couldn’t have me, he...

The world might not see it or think of it,But you are enough to have someonesacrificed for you.That should tell you that not every hardshipyou go through is permanent,It is just temporary.It’s like a starter,You...

Sex is usually cleaner than a blood sacrifice.

Skypilot could not help but hope that the song of the moon–the song of God’s miraculous firmament–might reach her tonight and enable her to feel the reality of Christ’s love and sacrifice.