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“Fire had an almost magical quality that suggested anything was possible. Early on, man even believed that fire was a god that had to be fed with animal sacrifices in order to burn brightly. Today we have evolved a long way from this ridiculous notion of a 'fire god' and now rightfully understand God to be a bearded being who lives amongst the clouds and hates Jews and homosexuals.”

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Author:Amy Sedaris

“Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.”

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Author:William Torrey Harris

“When the cow gives blood and the Christ is born we must all eat sacrifices. We must all eat beautiful women.”

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Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.”

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Book:Possible Worlds

Source: Possible Worlds

“God accepts the sacrifice of the pure in heart.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.”

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Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.”

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Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.”

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Author:Thomas S. Monson

“I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.”

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Author:Therese of Lisieux

“Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.”

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Book:Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux Study Edition

Source: Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux Study Edition

“The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, conform over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.”

“For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.”

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Author:John Stott

“My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah!”

Source: Morning by Morning