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

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

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"Then Percy let go of his tiny ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness."

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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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"Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them."

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"Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us."

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