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“Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you are fixing something that’s insufficient in your life.”

Today Pain Pay Sacrifice Willing Tomorrow Messages Payment Fixing Insufficient Betterment

Author:Greg Plitt

“In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.”

Art Light Pain Lying Choices Dark Sacrifice Regret Cruelty Good And Bad Light And Dark Dark Art Chiaroscuro

Book:A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is a mark of virtue. Pain becomes the inignia of morality - and conversely, pleasure becomes the insignia of immorality. Christianity, therefore, does not say, "Go forth and be miserable." Rather, it says, "Go forth and practice the virtue of self-sacrifice." In practical terms, these commands are identical.”

“Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.”

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“Most people focus on the wrong thing; They focus on the result, not the process. The process is the sacrifice; it's all the hard parts - the sweat, the pain, the tears, the losses. You make the sacrifices anyway. You learn to enjoy them, or at least embrace them. In the end, it is the sacrifices that must fulfill you.”

People Ends Hard Pain Process Enjoy Loss Results Focus Sacrifice Tears Embrace Sweat Wrong Things

Book:My Fight / Your Fight

Source: My Fight / Your Fight

“It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war?”

“Yes, I pray that my pain might be removed, that it might cease; but more so, I pray for the strength to bear it, the grace to benefit from it, and the devotion to offer it up to God as a sacrifice of praise.”

Might Pain Grace Sacrifice Bears Praying Offers Benefits Praise Cease Devotion I Pray

Book:A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty

Source: A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty

“Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear; a certain amount rational, an enormous amount irrational. All political cruelties stem from that overwhelming fear. To push back the threatening forces, to offer primitive sacrifices, to give up some in the hope that others will be savedthat is the power struggle. That is the outsidedness of the poor, the feeble, the infantile. That is the outsidedness of Jews. That is the outsidedness of blacks. That is the outsidedness of women.”

“Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.”

“Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.”

Source: Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street

“Alas!... what is it, valiant knight, save an offering of sacrifice to a demon of vain glory, and a passing through the fire of Moloch? What remains to you as a prize of all the blood you have spilled, of all the travail and pain you have endured, of all the tears which your deeds have caused, when death hath broken the strong man's spear, and overtaken the speed of his war-horse?”

Source: Heroes of the Scottish Highlands: Ivanhoe, Waverley and Rob Roy (3 Unabridged Illustrated Classics): Historical Novels from the Author of The Pirate, The Heart of Midlothian, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Bride of Lammermoor and Anne of Geierstein

“The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain.”

Pain Joy Effort Sacrifice Exquisite Seeming

Author:David Hawkins

“Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.”

Giving Pain Joy Causes Sacrifice Uplifting

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“He who had known us before we were even born came to know us infinitely better as he knelt in Gethsemane and as he hung on the cross of Calvary. We come to know those we serve (Mosiah 5:13; compare 1 John 2:3-4). And we certainly come to love and treasure those for whom we sacrifice. Conversely, the depth of the pain we feel in behalf of a loved one is intimately tied to the depth of the love we bear that loved one. Thus only a being filled with infinite and eternal love could perform an infinite and eternal sacrifice.”

Knows Feels Pain Born Known Sacrifice Bears Eternal Crosses Infinite Filled Depth Treasure Compare Loved Ones Tied Hung Behalf Eternal Love Calvary Gethsemane

Author:Robert L. Millet

“Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make a choice - if the choice looks like a 'sacrifice' - you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness... the necessity of deciding between two things you want when you can't have both.”

People Ifs World Want Looks Two Pain Choices Sacrifice Worst Concepts Two Things Nonsense Altruism Twists Discomfort Greediness

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“How you educate the people around you, what steps you take toward making it better, what sacrifices you make. The equation of life is simple: There's no gain without pain. For whatever reason, that's the way this world was designed in every facet. It's the same thing, there has to be a sacrifice.”

People World Way Reason Pain Life Is Simple Steps Sacrifice This World Gains Educate Equations Facets Without Pain Life Is Simple

Author:Andrew Hawkins

“While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.”

People Ifs Feels Should Believe Use Pain Sides Decision Emotion Leader Sacrifice Empathy Connections Intention Clinton Careful Vulnerability Companion Be Careful Shorthand

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.”

Inspirational Pain Order Pleasure Clear Sacrifice Gains Philosophical

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.”

People Want Needs Able Pain Order Class Sacrifice Middle Republican Democrat Investment Addresses Middle Class Deficit Imperatives Reduction

Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz

“In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.”

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“The smile that covered a "multitude of pains" was no hypocritical mask. She was trying to hide her sufferings - even from God! - so as not to make others, especially the poor, suffer because of them. When she promised to do "a little extra praying & smiling" for one of her friends, she was alluding to an acutely painful and costly sacrifice: to pray when prayer was so difficult and to smile when her interior pain was agonizing.”

Trying Littles Pain Suffering Difficult Prayer Poor Sacrifice Praying Painful Extras Mask Covered Multitudes Interiors Hypocritical Agonizing

Author:Brian Kolodiejchuk

“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.”

Firsts Pain Space Sacrifice Shots Monkeys Without Pain Without Sacrifice

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.”

Ifs Humans Self Pain Sacrifice Bravery Forgiving Dear Allowing Meaningless Nobility Self Sacrifice Meaningless Things

Author:Walter M. Miller, Jr.

“There will never be peace between us. Ever. You shattered any hope of it when you watched your brother kill me and refused to speak up on my behalf. (Acheron) I was afraid. (Artemis) And I was butchered and gutted on the floor like an animal sacrifice. Excuse me if I don’t feel your pain. I’m too busy with my own. (Acheron)”

Ifs Feels Pain Speak My Own Animal Sacrifice Brother Busy Excuse Behalf Kill Me Too Busy Shattered Your Brother Excuse Me Artemis

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain anything without sacrificing something else in return, but once you have overcome it and made it your own...you will gain an irreplaceable fullmetal heart.”

Heart Made Pain Sacrifice Return Lessons Gains Overcoming Made It Meaningless Alchemist Irreplaceable Without Pain

Author:Hiromu Arakawa

“A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something in return.”

Pain Sacrifice Return Lessons Gains Meaningless Without Pain

Author:Hiromu Arakawa

“I've already had to wait so long." "How long?" Luce asked. "Not so long that I've forgotten that you're worth everything. Every sacrifice. Every pain.”

Long Pain Waiting Sacrifice Forgotten

Book:The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition

Source: The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition

“Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who condescended to come into this world of misery, struggle, and pain to touch men's hearts for good, to teach the way of eternal life, and to give Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of mankind. How different, how empty our lives would be without Him. How infinite is our opportunity for exaltation made possible through His redeeming love.”

“Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.”

People Ifs Inspirational Made Might Pain Night Song Given Black Memories Secret Known Sacrifice Poet Weakness Lonely Empty Raises Slavery Tales Tragic Pot Revealing Monument Lonely Nights

Author:Maya Angelou

“When we love something, emotion often drives our actions. This is the gift and the challenge entrepreneurs face every day. The companies we dream of and build from scratch are part of us and intensely personal. They are our families. Our lives. But the entrepreneurial journey is not for everyone. Yes, the highs are high and the rewards can be thrilling. But the lows can break your heart. Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable”

“I always asked for forgiveness for my sins right away but I never accepted it until I felt right that I had suffered enough to pay for it. God revealed to me what I was doing how much unnecessary pain I was causing myself. He even showed me that what I was doing was an insult to Jesus that in essence I was saying Lord the sacrifice of Your life and blood was good but not good enough. I must add my work of feeling guilty before I can be forgiven.”

I Can Enough Feelings Pain Jesus Felt Sin Pay Lord Sacrifice Blood Essence Add Accepted Guilty Insult Good Enough Unnecessary Forgiven Not Good Enough Feeling Guilty

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Eat bitter, taste sweet," Frank said. "I hate that proverb." "But it's true. What do they call it these days---no pain, no gain? Same concept. You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns out sour in the end. But if you take the hard path---ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.”

Source: The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)

“This pain to remain the same outweigh the pain to change... When you get tired enough is when you begin to want to sacrifice everything inside of you—the fear just leaves”

Want Enough Pain Sacrifice Tired

Author:Erykah Badu

“There's no such thing as a painless lesson. They just don't exist. Sacrifices are necessary. You can't gain anything without losing something first although if you can endure that pain and walk away from it, you'll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle. Yeah, a heart made fullmetal.”

Ifs Firsts Heart Made Enough Pain Strong Walks Sacrifice Lessons Losing Gains Overcoming Endure Obstacles Brotherhood Strong Enough Painless Fma

Author:Hiromu Arakawa

“You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.”

Pain Certain Loss Views Sacrifice Acceptance Solve Possessiveness

Book:Letters of Ted Hughes

Source: Letters of Ted Hughes

“I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, a thief. And I would have told, except that a part of me was glad. Glad that this would all be over with soon. Baba would dismiss them, there would be some pain, but life would move on. I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.”

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable.”

Knows Years Mean Body Age Pain Life Is Watches Growing Failing Sacrifice Dying Survival Instinct Toil Survival Instinct

Book:Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files

Source: Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files

“Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.”

World Life Inspirational Self Dream Pain Suffering Doubt Sacrifice Self Esteem Dare Esteem Impress Self-doubt Friction Dare To Dream

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.”