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“Have you ever thought that ‘the blind leading the blind’ is about two people? The former assumes that they know where they’re going. The latter assumes that the former knows where they’re going. And that neither end up in either place.”

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“Blindness is not the inability to see. Rather, it is the choice not to see.”

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“I have had the privilege of meeting a host of people who are totally blind. Yet despite their blindness, these individuals possess some of the most remarkable vision that I have ever encountered. And every time I meet one these incredible individuals, I am forced to rethink what blindness really is.”

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“It was always the magic of those dense snowfalls that bedecked the landscape in a whitened splendor and rendered the horizon cloaked to invisibility in winter’s frosty veil. And in the rapture of such moments, you find yourself pressed beyond any and all means of resistance to hold onto anything except the majesty of the ascending moment. And being held a willing hostage, it takes but a moment of these moments to realize that everything around you has been swept up in just the same way, leaving you joined with the whole of creation that is both quieted in awe, but likewise raucous in praise. And I wonder (in some very remote way), if the first Christmas night might have been something like this.”

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“If I’m my biggest fan, the odds are I’m my only fan.”

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“I have no wish to stand amidst the accolades of men, even should millions of them shout my name in adoration. Instead, I would rather bow in the audience of God without a single man knowing that to be happening.”

God Christian Jesus Ego Praise Selfish Selfless Adoration Ego Centric

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“Do we give gifts, or do we dispense items? The difference? With the former we’re giving part of ourselves, with the latter we’re not giving ourselves or anything else for that matter.”

Giving Sacrifice Selfish Selfless Items Gifts Give Ourselves Dispense

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“Can anything be called an ‘achievement’ if it does not simultaneously enhance the life of someone other than the one who has done the achieving?”

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“The world is not mine for the taking. Rather, it is mine for the giving.”

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“As I live out my life, I would be wise to remember that the size of my shoe does not dictate the depth of my print.”

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“Love understands that if we’re not giving ourselves away what we’re doing is constantly throwing ourselves away.”

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“It’s not what God asks of us. Rather, it’s what He wants to give to us. And in a society that has focused on the former at the exclusion of the latter, we have fundamentally ‘asked’ that God give us ‘nothing.’ And if you’re at all curious about what ‘nothing’ looks like, watch the news.”

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“If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed a pay-off, I’m only assuming a sacrifice.”

“Leadership is simple. It’s laying down one’s life on behalf of another for no other reason than such an action represents what my existence is all about in the first place.”

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“Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.”

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“As an action, deciding to sacrifice oneself is nothing more than deciding to restore who we are by turning against what we’ve become.”

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“To refuse to sacrifice may in fact be the greatest sacrifice. For refusing to sacrifice means that I willfully throw away some of the greatest growth that life has to offer me.”

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“I wonder how different life would be if the only thing we demanded of it was the opportunity to give back to it.”

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“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.”

“I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.”

“Despite how utterly massive they might be, it is never the size of the arsenal nor the strength of the warrior. Rather, it is a heart bent on sacrifice that is the most potent weapon of all.”

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“Despite the voices of the culture that would scream otherwise, victory is irreparably tied to the surrender of self. And that explains why so few are truly victorious.”

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“Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.”

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“The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.”

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“There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain.”

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“I am thankful that in the giving we receive, and what we receive is the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we give is always bigger once we’ve given it away.”

Love Giving Sacrifice Give Loving Others Sacrificial Mentality

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“We can’t sufficiently define love with our words. Therefore, the only option that we’re left with is to show it in our actions. And if our actions don’t show it, the words don’t matter. Neither does anything else.”

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“What I’m left with when I have nothing left is the satisfaction of knowing that I left nothing for myself in the service of someone else.”

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“Endings press the essence of themselves forward into the emerging embodiment of what is about to begin. And without such a sacrificial endowment, ‘what will be’ would be relegated to the pale uncertainty of ‘what might be.”

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“I am walking a road designed to pave a road that will begin where mine will end.”

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“The dream that drives me the most is to watch a dream come to fruition in the life of another because I had the privilege of investing in the dream that drove that life.”

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“History is a vivid declaration of freedoms sought and freedoms denied. Yet, may we be sufficiently brave to be the nation that pens a history where freedom never needs to be ‘sought’ because it has become the indomitable essence of everything that we stand on, stand for, and stand in zealous defense of.”

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“Never give yourself to someone without the promise that you’re giving yourself.”

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“The choice to be bold is not some cavalier notion born of the fictional battles that grant us some needed sense of purpose and duty. Rather, it is the choice to accept a battle that we may not win and to bear the wounds of battle that may never heal.”

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“In making the life of another better, you will have done the same for yourself in ways that are frequently hidden by the sacrifices that were made for the betterment of that other.”

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“A true leader will refuse the title but commit to the task.”

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“Greatness is an unforgiving taskmaster. It demands that I discard all notions of self-preservation, that I lay aside the privilege of this existence and all of the assorted things that this existence affords me, and that in doing so I embrace the understanding that I was given this life for the sole purpose of giving it over to others. And greatness is unforgiving in all of this because greatness can only arise out of all of this.”

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“I dare not think that I can save that which I refuse to engage.”

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“The mark of a real dream is that it will cost you all of the things that achieving the dream will grant you.”

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“There are those dubious causes that destroy our lives, all the while leading us to believe that the murder was sacrifice.”

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“To refuse the sacrifice of the ascent is to miss the fact that the grandeur of the valley can only be fully appreciated when we see the whole of it rather than spending the entirety of our lives simply walking a part of it.”

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“Your purpose is the expenditure of self, not the preservation of it.”

Giving Purpose Sacrifice Selfish Selfless Self Sacrifice

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“No purpose ends with you.”

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“Risk is the test of love’s validity.”

Love Giving Risk Sacrifice Test Risking

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“Abandonment is sacrifice thrown into reverse.”

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“I fight battles to help other people fight theirs.”

Giving War Fighting Struggle Sacrifice Combat Fight Battles

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“When the purpose of the battle exceeds any benefit that we might derive from fighting it, it is then that we have become warriors of the most warring kind.”

Giving Purpose Fighting Sacrifice Battle Warrior

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“If you have not been driven to the end of yourself at some point in your life, it is likely that you have not given the whole of yourself at any time in your life.”

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“True sacrifice is found in intentionally falling with those who fall, so that in the falling I might pick them up.”

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“The call of fatherhood is in fact a call of sacrifice, not in some heroic sense where a father is lifted high on some glowing pedestal with all of his sacrifices held up to the awe of those around him. Rather, it is a call that will cost him all that he has, that will be absent of accolades, where rewards will be sparse, and where he will someday find himself having spent all, but in the spending have gained everything. And this is the glory of fatherhood.”

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