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"Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace."
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"The greatest freedom in this world is a sense of self detached from appearances so that we may sacrifice today's comforts for tomorrow's opportunities."
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"There is no rank in sacrifice."
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"Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness."
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"Just as God expressed his great love by giving his son to die for our redemption, so we will express our love for God by giving to others."
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"Be prepared to die to self and to give up everything for the Gospel's sake, even to give up the most precious thing you have, your life."
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"People don't want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they're worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it's not that people are always worth it, it's that love is."
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"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
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"Your willingness to sacrifice who you are today for who you need to be in the future is a necessary decision on the success journey."
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"It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh, yes, my children, it won. But it lost its life in the winning."
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"I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it's louder."
Strength
"Maybe I don't have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings."
Renewal
"Will I someday pass into history having passed by God and therefore forfeited the opportunity to change my world and reap the blessing of being able to do so because I saw myself as inadequate to achieve either? And how long will it take me to realize that if I doggedly refuse to pass by God, my inadequacy is instantly irrelevant and I have in actuality begun to achieve these very things."
Redemption
"I would much prefer to enlarge your life by giving you the gift of my life, rather than gifting your life to material obesity with frivolous trinkets."
Generosity
"Maybe I need to immerse the fabric of my soul in torrential nature of Christmas, and in doing so to finally understand that it is the very thing that can make the world what I so wish it were."
Reflection
"If I continually focus on what I don't have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it's completely full."
Contentment
"God's absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy."
Absence
"The art of living is to rise above lesser things so that we can truly enjoy great things. And the message of Christmas is the greatest of all things."
Fulfillment
"It wasn't until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving 'through' life without driving 'in' life. So, I've decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down."
Awareness
"Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don't even go looking for angels."
Conflict
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