“It has been well said that ‘in the hours of clear reason we should say that we had never made a sacrifice’; and again it may be said, no less well, that all which we delight to recall is sacrifice.
“For sacrifice properly describes not loss to man but devotion to God; not suffering, but dedication; not the foregoing of that which we might have enjoyed, but the conversion of that which was offered to us for a time into an eternal possession; the investment of things unstable and fleeting with a power of unchangeable joy.”
Bishop WESTCOTT
“It is that deep principle of all true life which represents the affinity – latent, oppressed by circumstances, repressed by sin, but always there – between our human nature and the Divine, and through subjection to which we reassume our birthright as ‘the sons of God’; conscience to see, and will to choose – not what shall please ourselves, but – the highest and purest aim that life presents to us.”
J. C. BROWN. from Ethics of George Eliot
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