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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.”

“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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“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.”

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

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

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“No purpose ends with you.”

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

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

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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.”

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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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“Sacrifice is to lose something we can see in order to gain something that we can’t. And therein lies the problem. First that we lose something. And second that because we can’t see what we gain we’d prefer to keep what we’ve got. Therefore, what we actually sacrifice is the opportunity to sacrifice.”

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“Our mission is to be the resource that helps achieve the mission. However, if we make ourselves the mission, we will be neither mission nor resource.”

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“Abundance is the perpetual act of being empty.”

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“Some might say that abundance is not what you hold in your hand, but what you have in your heart. And I would say that abundance is giving away what you have in your heart so that neither hold anything.”

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“Love is the essence of our humanity expressing itself in actions of sacrifice so profound that we risk not surviving those expressions.”

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“Giving reaps the greatest dividends.”

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“Serving someone in the most sacrificial way possible is to willingly place ourselves in a position where we may need to be saved from those that we serve, while determining that we will forgo any such saving.”

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“What litters the forest floor each autumn is the story of a hundred million sacrifices, for without the death of the leaves there would be no forest to sacrifice for. And without something to sacrifice for, there is nothing to live for.”

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“The message of sacrifice is that the greatest fullness imaginable can only arise from the willingness to experience the greatest emptiness possible.”

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“Sacrifice is assumed to be the giving away of that which we need for our own survival. But have we considered that survival (in the richest sense of the word) is not based on what we keep, but on what we give away?”

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“If I am a compilation of nothing but myself, I will have lived a life where I became nothing more than myself. And while it might be true that we all begin with ourselves, to end there is to end in a terribly small place.”

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“Maybe being a hero is deciding to step up on behalf of another at great expense to oneself because that is the essence our humanity. And if such actions are heroic, maybe they are not heroic because we decided to embrace that essence. Rather, maybe they’re heroic because we chose not to reject it.”

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“I think that my fear of being sacrificial is based on the assumption that I will give away far more than I could ever hope to get back. And while that assumption is blatantly wrong, maybe the greatest thing that I’m doing wrong is that I’m walking around with an assumption.”

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“To sacrifice is to do for others what we need done for ourselves. But the greatest sacrifice of all is to know that in doing this for someone else, we have now forfeited this thing ever being done for us.”

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“If I make the world a better place for you, I have in turn made it a better place for me. But if I am so selfish that I take it upon myself to reverse the order of that process, I might have reversed the outcome for you, but I will have destroyed the world for me.”

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“It was His love for us that cost Him everything. And that is the essence of Christmas that should be the substance of our lives.”

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“A true leader never has to put his ‘big boy pants on’ because he’s never taken them off.”

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“May the many monuments that abound remind me of the desperate need for courage, the inestimable value of valor, the honor evoked of sacrifice, and the fact that a life spent in the service of self embodies none of these.”

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“Oh that I would commit to the things that would demand everything of me instead of committing to those things of which I demand everything. For it is the commitment that drains me of everything that is, in fact, the commitment that grants me all things.”

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“If I live life as some barter system, I will in fact never have given anything away except the opportunity to really live.”

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“When it comes to sacrifice, the glaring difference between myself and God is that for Him price is not a consideration. And while I hate to admit it, I find myself struggling to consider that that’s even possible.”

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“The greatest gifts of all create space for the greatest sacrifices imaginable. For if we simply receive something that does not press us to give something in return, we will die fat with possessions but starved of meaning.”

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