48 Metaphors for sacrifices

Sympathy with the good of others must be so cultivated that the sacrifice of personal enjoyment will be a sweeter joy than the pleasure itself.

It only refuses to admit that the sacrifice is itself a good.

But the first sacrifice for which war calls is life; and we must revise our estimates of its value, if we would conduct our war to a happy end.

Men may, therefore, be at least excused if, before sacrificing their own interests or pleasures, they require that the good of others for which they make the sacrifice shall be plainly preponderant.

First and foremost, surely, the sacrifice of repentance, of which it is written, "The sacrifice of God is a broken spirit.

Still, the sacrifice of Isaac was a terrible shock to Abraham's paternal affection.

" These sacrifices on the part of the country had become a matter of urgent necessity.

The only sacrifice which Christ enjoined was self-sacrifice, supreme devotion to a spiritual and unseen and supreme God, and to his children: as the Christ took upon himself the form of a man, suffering evil all his days, and finally even an ignominious death, in obedience to his Father's will, that the world might be saved by his own self-sacrifice.

Sacrifice is the condition of fecundity.

Self-sacrifice was an instinct with Marjorie.

No power on earth could ever convert his simple faith to the idea that this great sacrifice was an ill-devised scheme to end in final failure; and he preached accordingly.

The sacrifices associated with them became popular festivals, and so these gods or their successors were saved from oblivion; some of them have lived on in popular religion to the present day.

The first pure sacrifice of Love is self!

" The barbarous sacrifice of an innocent maiden is of course a myth, but it is a myth which doubtless had many counterparts in Greek life.

Sacrifice was one instance of worship required under the Law; and it is said;'He that sacrificeth unto any God, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed' (Exod.

Self-sacrifice was the law of his life.

Mr. Robertson Smith had a celebrated theory that cereal sacrifice is a tribute to a god, while sacrifice of a beast or man is an act of communion with the god.

Sacrifice is not only not a pain, but the deepest and acutest pleasure possible.

Self-sacrifice is, of all others, the quality by which, in questions of feeling, the true gold is to be distinguished from the false.

The sacrifice of the personal desire for repose to the performance of domestic and social duties is an everyday event with us, and other sacrifices of the smaller to the larger self are by no means uncommon.

Not until the time of Isaiah was it said that God took no delight in burnt offerings,that the real sacrifices which He requires are a broken and a contrite heart.

Sacrifices were the basis of these ceremonies, and a human victim the most efficacious.

The Viswedeva sacrifice is the offer of food to all creatures of the earth (by scattering a portion).

Self-sacrifice is a renunciation of life, whether in the existence of the individual or in the life of States, which are agglomerations of individuals.

Sacrifice is a religious ceremony among them; but no missionary has yet been able to find any reference to the one great Atonement made for sin; none of their customs or traditions authorize any such connection.

48 Metaphors for  sacrifices