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People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed.

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.

It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

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

What is the evolutionary value of blushing? It seems not to be to our advantage to do it, to involuntarily reveal our inner emotions. If we're trying to manipulate or lie, actions in furtherance of individual goals as opposed to the goals of others, blushing would not seem to be helpful. And yet everyone blushes, except the psychopath.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.