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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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“If there’s a reason why I keep my distance from God it probably has something to do with the fact that the closer I am to Him, the clearer I see myself. And maybe I don’t want that much clarity.”

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“What war is ever really won?”

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“Run the race as if everything in existence depends upon it, because everything in your existence does.”

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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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“The only reason that we’ve settled is that there’s something greater that we’ve let slip away.”

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“To sacrifice our principles on the altar of greed is to be fooled into believing that that’s the only thing that we sacrificed.”

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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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“A true patriot does not seek to live off of the sacrifices of others. Rather, a true patriot is the one who sacrifices so that others might live. And therefore, we might be quite wise to take a moment and ponder the reality that a nation heavy on recipients and light on patriots will soon have neither.”

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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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“An agenda serves myself, while a conviction serves everyone except myself.”

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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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“God did not wait for us to believe in ourselves before He acted out of His belief in us.”

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“The cost of success is that I must be willing to fail far more times than I succeed, which is why so few of us are successful.”

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“My great-grandfather fought in the Civil War. And such was the carnage that he never spoke of it right up to his dying day. Therefore, we might consider that it was the sacrifices that he witnessed, and the pain of comrades lost that he carried to his own grave that are but a tiny part of the inestimable price paid for the liberties that we abuse.”

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“I must confess that I have never found myself standing at some terribly critical juncture where I had to trade my life to insure your liberties. But there have been untold millions who found themselves standing on battlefields strewn with unimaginable horrors who had to face that very choice. And although words fall miserably short in framing a heart overflowing with appreciation, I want to thank those who at those moments and in those places decided to hand me my liberty through the sacrifice of their lives.”

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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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“I only own something because someone somewhere sacrificed in order to create the situation where I have the opportunity to own it. And therefore, the more I own the more I owe.”

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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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“You will find great leaders pounding the pavement of life instead of pounding the pulpits of their agendas.”

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“I play the scenario of the hero out in my head, and in doing so I revel at the thought of boldly abating the darkness and saving the day. Yet, until I face the searing scourge of battle and am thickly bloodied by it, I will not understand that to imagine oneself as a hero without being laden with the scars of battle is fiction only. And if I am sufficiently brave, maybe someday I will turn that fiction to fact.”

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“Preparation for a journey is little more than being in ‘love’ with the idea of adventure. But being ‘committed’ to the idea of adventure means actually getting up and walking. And that might explain why our shoes seldom wear out.”

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“If we sacrifice the opportunity to sacrifice, what we have in fact sacrificed is the opportunity live.”

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“The fullest manifestation of myself is achieved when I ignore myself in the service of everyone but myself. And although humanity might scream the insanity of such a statement, the real insanity is to believe that humanity is sane.”

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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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“Somewhere along the way, someone sacrificed enough to crush the rot of tyranny in order to plant the seeds of freedom. And if we don’t carefully tend to the harvest we will eventually inherit the tyranny.”

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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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“Although we would prefer to tame it, love is less a nice idea and more a commitment to embracing love as far too massive to simply be a nice idea.”

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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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“An idea, regardless of how noble it might be, is only an idea until someone has the idea to act upon it.”

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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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“Because we weren’t there when the price was paid doesn’t mean that the price wasn’t paid. And if we don’t believe that, maybe we need to consider the solider who never came home so that we could.”

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“If I am not a servant to others, by process of elimination I am then a servant to myself. And that serves no one.”

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“When we say it is the whole story, the cross tells us that death is only half the story. And it is by far the least compelling half.”

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“Having a noble idea does not make me noble. Acting on a noble idea still does not make me noble. What makes me noble is to realize that nobility is simply putting others before myself and acting on that. And in that sense, we are all called to nobility.”

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“A real journey will demand that I put my shoes on, but then I’ve got to stand up and walk. And I forget the second part, the first part doesn’t matter.”

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“To lead is not to call your family up to where you’re at. Rather, it’s to abandon where you’re at and call yourself down to where they are.”

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“If I have held a part of myself back from my children, I have obviously spent some time calculating the expense of being a father. And the fact is, a real father doesn't do that kind of math.”

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“To sacrifice myself is the most radical way that I can exchange what I’ve become for what I was supposed to become.”

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