“It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.” PeopleIfsWayShouldFirstsDreamSufferingTroubleSacrificeTruth IsBlessingSpreadWideTrialsAccompany Book:Sermons Preached on Various Occasions Source: Sermons Preached on Various Occasions
“The trouble with "sacrifices as symbolic acts" is that the immediate impact on those for whom the sacrifice is made quickly fades, while the impact on those who actually make the sacrifice can go on and on.” MadeTroubleSacrificeGoes OnImpactFadesSymbolic Author:Preston Manning
“Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch over the safety of our beloved country during the troubles which agitate and convulse the residue of the world, and to sacrifice to that all personal and local considerations.” WorldCountryWatchesTroubleSacrificeMankindDutySafetySacredLocalsBelovedMotiveConsiderationHonorablePosterityAgitateBeloved Country Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble, fatigue--an exertion both painful and compulsory. Labor was our animal condition, struggling to survive in dirt and darkness.” HumanityFallAnimalDarknessStruggleGraceTroubleSacrificeConditionsLaborPainfulPurityDirtDistressToilHumiliationFatigueEnablingExertionCompulsoryStruggling To SurviveFalls From Grace Author:Shoshana Zuboff
“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death - ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.” HumansWholeFactsSeemsOrderPassionNationsRaceOur LivesTroubleSacrificeBloodOughtCrossesRootsArmyDenyFlagsRejoiceTabooConfrontingMosquesTotemsConundrumsSteeplesBlood Sacrifice Author:James A. Baldwin
“The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.” IfsThinkingMenFeelsHeartKindMadeRealMomentsFactsHappensEasyHurtQualityKindnessImagineTroubleSacrificeCreaturesFellowsOneselfVicesConvictionHumbleAttributesAnnoyingRight PlaceInadequateConsoleBenevolentChaste Author:C. S. Lewis
“The real Art of Peace is not to sacrifice a single one of your warriors to defeat an enemy. Vanquish your foes by always keeping yourself in a safe and unassailable position; then no one will suffer any losses. The Way of a Warrior, the Art of Politics, is to stop trouble before it starts. It consists in defeating your adversaries spiritually by making them realize the folly of their actions. The Way of a Warrior is to establish harmony.” WayArtRealActionSufferingPeaceRealizingLossEnemyTroubleSacrificePositionSafeHarmonyDefeatWarriorFollyFoeAdversariesVanquishSpiritual WarriorDefeating The Enemy Book:The Art of Peace Source: The Art of Peace