“[regarding the sacrifice] It was all very professionally done, even to a man whose religion consisted mostly of half formed and unanswered questions, it was strangely reassuring.”
“Sacrifice, sacrifice.”
“The greatest sacrifice a man can make is the image of his soul.”
“Change requires sacrifice of the self, which by itself is the fulfillment of the self to the being truly desiring for that change to become a reality in the world, but to all others this fulfillment would only appear to be either altruism or self-denial.”
“To die for the very thing that you’re saving is far less a death and far more what it is to live.”
“اكتب لي قصيدة الطير الذي كان يخشى الطيران والغصن المحبّ الذي لم ينفك يردّد له بصمتٍ: لا تتأخر بالمكوث هنا يا ولدي...”
“When it comes to sacrifice, the glaring difference between myself and God is that for Him price is not a consideration. And while I hate to admit it, I find myself struggling to consider that that’s even possible.”
“Because that is what a husband is supposed to do for his wife: lay down his life even when he doesn t have to.”
“My life expended in the service of my life becomes something so terribly narrow that the value of my existence outside of my existence has no value. But if I dare to make myself a servant to others, I have made myself of value to everyone.”
“The biggest sacrifice is doing what others won t and letting go something which we need the most.”
“What in the world would drive an author to write his own death into the script, and then sentence himself to that very death by turning his fiction into fact? The fact is, you and I are that ‘what the world.”
“To lead is to put myself below another so that I can lift up another. And true leadership means that I will keep them in that position and me in mine.”
“Frankly, I’m not all that certain that I would die for me, which makes God’s choice to do so both confusing and beautiful.”
“I look at a baby born in a manger and I ask, “Would I be willing to do that?” And the fact that I’m not evidences the need for Christmas.”
“I have made myself my own first-responder. And if I’m really all that good, why am I still laying at the scene of the accident?”
“Throughout our lifetime many people come ‘to’ us. But if they haven’t come ‘for’ us the coming doesn’t matter. And I would have us carefully consider that Christmas is God perfectly doing both.”
“Because we weren’t there when the price was paid doesn’t mean that the price wasn’t paid. And if we don’t believe that, maybe we need to consider the solider who never came home so that we could.”