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  • If the world is to hear the church's voice today, leaders are needed who are authoritative, spiritual, and sacrificial. Sacrificial, because this trait follows the model of Jesus, who gave Himself for the whole world and who calls us to follow in His steps. -- J. Oswald Sanders
  • It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor. -- Evangeline Lilly
  • Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time. -- Cliff Richard
  • Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God. -- Ignatius of Antioch
  • Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes. -- C. J. Mahaney
  • Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us. -- Adam Hamilton
  • I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down. -- Megan Fox
  • When the Temple was destroyed, the Jewish people faced a crisis unlike any other in its history. For centuries, the sacrificial system had served as the primary medium of atonement before the Almighty. -- Meir Soloveichik
  • I often think about Christ having all power, but He abdicated the power to live a sacrificial life for His children. In His own words he told his disciples that His meat was to do the will of the Father. -- Monica Johnson
  • Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout - a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the sacrifice of those who accepted the terms of battle? War is a sacrificial system that creates its own justification. -- Stanley Hauerwas
  • Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation's economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagement and coddling to labor unions. -- Clayton Christensen
  • It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. -- Ayn Rand
  • Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. -- William Robertson Smith
  • Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer's, this means God's unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
  • If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind. -- George Edward Woodberry
  • Love is a sacrificial item -- Asa Don Brown
  • Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility. -- Douglas Wilson
  • Water holes are sacrificial waters where you make a steady gift of your pride and high-priced balls. -- Tommy Bolt
  • Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable. -- Leonid Shamkovich
  • Jesus wants to give you five things: extravagant compassion, moral clarity, sacrificial courage, persevering hope, and refreshing joy, -- Gary Haugen
  • Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends. -- George Santayana
  • The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. -- Ayn Rand
  • I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort. -- Tony Kushner
  • Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love... -- Alistair Begg
  • I thought they expected you to be controversial at UCLA? I believe the Board of Regents draws the line at sacrificial murder. -- Josh Lanyon
  • People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame -- Nas
  • The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world. -- J. Oswald Sanders
  • Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions. -- B. R. Ambedkar
  • About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course -- Siegbert Tarrasch
  • Let us ask God to make us true in our love, to make us sacrificial beings, for it seems to me that sacrifice is only love put into action. -- Elizabeth of the Trinity
  • Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox. -- Chanakya
  • Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual. -- Franz Kafka
  • To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war. -- Pope Francis
  • The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance. -- Ayn Rand
  • It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has been accepted as a doctrine representing benevolence and love for mankind. -- Nathaniel Branden
  • In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a member of this group has no clout with the state. -- Vladimir Sorokin
  • Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good"?only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop? -- Ralph Ellison
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