It's not about how much work you're doing. It's about what work you're doing and how you're doing the work..
It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it willingly for Him. I may not be a martyr for the f….
Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail..
"Religions" of the Roman world varied. Most of it was ritual practices. There were periodic occasions when cities honored their guardian deities with….
There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else..
Most people think the biggest sacrifice, the greates act of love you can give is to die for someone. And probably it is. But Sometimes it is the oppo….
Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family, so that meant that we had to kill and eat our….
Me? I slept like the dead, which I hoped wasn’t a sign of things to come..
It's all about the confidence..
Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the sacrifice, often willingl….
Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Ta….
What got you here won't get you there..
Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not ….
You can't find what you don't go looking for..
To see more is to become more..
History works itself out in the living..
I'm good at picking friends..
There is time only to work slowly There is no time not to love.
Percy yelled. "What's going- Gah! Shrimpzilla!.
As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively ….
Where there is no inner freedom, there is no life..