16 Quotes by Criss Jami about Sacrifice
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Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do.
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To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.
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The true challenge of charity is not in the gifting of your trash but of your treasure, not your worst but your best.
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It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, would do such a thing?' It seems only theoretical albeit true that men who accept an objective rather than subjective moral standard are, in a general sense, more capable of making such sacrifices for the sake of peace.
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Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic.
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Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
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Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been
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You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.
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Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.
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