#sacrifice

It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow." "Ah...quite. You are a man of acute insight." "That’s not insight. That’s a personal guarantee. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#failure-is-not-an-option #guarantee #guarantees #human-sacrifice #insight

What do I look like? The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead, take mine. Take everything I have. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#sacrifice

The town was more than ready to accept the window dressing that hid the ugly truth of Joe's guilt. Some shared the secrets and kept the silence. Others would not have believed if they had been told. They would not have wanted to know. As those who saw and ignored the smoke from the crematoria of Hitler's Germany, they did not want to know that their world was not as it seemed. ↗

— Judith Spencer

#cult #evil #evil-men #hitler #holocaust

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 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

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#other #production #sacred #sacrifice #than

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#achieve #case #dancing #depth #doing

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#dynamic #faith #finest #human #human qualities

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#both #compromise #ending #good #hope