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"We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving."
"The cross unerringly exposes this stunningly marvelous and abruptly exquisite declaration that God will not let this single life of mine, with all of its grotesque maladies and pathetic filth pass into oblivion without unflinchingly declaring that my life carries a value worth the expenditure of His. And if I dare look upon the cross, I am utterly perplexed but wholly enraptured by the immensity of such a love as this."
"Because what my gradmother did with her fine coat (the loveliest thing she would ever own) is what all women of that generation (and before) did for their families and their husbands and their children. They cut up the finest and proudest parts of themselves and gave it all away. They repatterned what was theirs and shaped it for others. They went without. They were the last ones to eat at supper, and they were the first ones to get up every morning, warming the cold kitchen for another day spent caring for everyone else. This was the only thing they knew how to do. This was their guiding verb and their defining principle of life: They gave."
"The great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love."
"We've yet to comprehend the impervious reality that to gain 'life' we have to do the most scandalous thing imaginable, and that is to work 'against' the whole of our humanity and give everything away. And yet to give everything away is to work 'with' the whole of God's character."
"The sacrifice 'of' self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice 'for' self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish."
"I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."
"A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live."
Explore more quotes by Edmond Mbiaka
"No one knows it all. Asking questions about the things that you don't know doesn't make you unintelligent. You don't have a million years on earth to make all the mistakes in the world and learn from them. You can learn from better informed people, and save yourself the headaches that come from making too many avoidable mistakes."
"Whatever you frequently introduce to your subconscious mind is what it will continuously feed your feelings and emotions with."
"In every circumstance, always remember that you can only be as happy or miserable as you repeatedly interpret your life to be."
"Life has its surprises; however, they mean nothing to a mind that dwells in the direction of its positive purpose."
"Never permit your negative past to come in-between you and the possibilities and opportunities that lie in your present and future."
"No one can succeed in breaking you down mentally, if you are always feeding some uplifting and hopeful words to your mind."
"For how long are you going to continue making excuses? When have you ever solved anything through excuses?"
"We all go through some tough times, but unfortunately, some of us let theirs define the rest of their lives instead of growing from them."
"Never give yourself some excuses why you are too busy to exercise. Your health is the foundation of your life. Please do your best to keep it healthy at all times."
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