#sacr

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #god #jesus-shock #protestantism #sacraments

In sharp contrast with our culture, the Bible teaches that the essence of marriage is a sacrificial commitment to the good of the other. That means that love is more fundamentally action than emotion. But in talking this way, there is a danger of falling into the opposite error that characterized many ancient and traditional societies. It is possible to see marriage as merely a social transaction, a way of doing your duty to family, tribe and society. Traditional societies made the family the ultimate value in life, and so marriage was a mere transaction that helped your family's interest. By contrast, contemporary Western societies make the individual's happiness the ultimate value, and so marriage becomes primarily an experience of romantic fulfillment. But the Bible sees GOD as the supreme good - not the individual or the family - and that gives us a view of marriage that intimately unites feelings AND duty, passion AND promise. That is because at the heart of the Biblical idea of marriage is the covenant. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#love #marriage #sacrifice #experience

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them. ↗

— Aaliyah

#anything #either #i #into #need

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#great #i #i think #only #sacrifice

A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#appreciate #great #group #individual #sacrifice

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred. ↗

— Tori Amos

#bit #lock #many #part #people

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. ↗

— David Antin

#casual #emphasize #i #sacred #secular

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#child #did #fully #growing #growing up

We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#also #cliff #coming #ground #location

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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