“In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.”
“The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.”
“Without sacrifice, true love is incomprehensible.”
“True sacrifice is the offering of self so that God can realize the power of creativity, compassion and friendship in and through your life.”
“In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.”
“The "self," it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.”