Sake Quotes - Page 36

• To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything else, we must love it only for His sake.

  Peter Claver

  Saint, God Love, Ought

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• Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing under strain what you don't now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate.

  Richard Clarke Cabot

  Appreciation, Work, Appreciate

  Richard Clarke Cabot (1914). “What Men Live by: Work, Play, Love, Worship”

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• It was Lord Jesus Christ who said "Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

  Rama Swami

  Inspirational, Life, Jesus

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• But love me for love's sake, that evermore
  Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Friendship Love, May, Eternity

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.144

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• One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

  Walter Pater

  Beautiful, Art, Book

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.155, Courier Corporation

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• But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Dream, What Matters, Awakening

  "Life Is a Dream". Play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 1635.

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• The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow - the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Inspirational, People, Cost

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• Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

  Dolly Parton

  Done, Deeds, Path

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• Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.

  Denise Juneau

  Encouragement, Jobs, Believe

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• Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.

  Leslie Jamison

  Age, Answers, Might

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• My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

  Joel McHale

  Careers, Goal, Fame

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to live a good life and pay my taxes. 'The Killing' was a blessing. It was two wonderful years. But I had reached a point in my life, especially with a young son, that I was no longer willing to compromise my life for the sake of a paycheque. I was no longer willing to move where the tax credits are strong.

  Kristin Lehman

  Strong, Good Life, Moving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are several insights at the heart of the A’s system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it’s a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god’s sake don’t go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Team, Heart

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

  David Ortiz

  Play, Want

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• Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.

  Kaitlin Olson

  Mean, Being Me, Being Mean

  "On Set Interview with the Cast of IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. September 7, 2008.

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• Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Literary Theory, Literature, Jargon

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• All Christians should be able to articulate reasons why they believe what they believe - not just for the sake of our spiritually confused friends, but also so that we ourselves will have a deeper and more confident faith.

  Lee Strobel

  Christian, Confused, Believe

  "Lee Strobel: We're on Cusp of Golden Era of Apologetics". Interview with Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. January 22, 2012.

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• Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists may call on us to, well, you know, do it like crazy for the sake of humankind.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Crazy, Orbit

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• I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.

  Denis Thatcher

  Giving, Gin And Tonic, Reception

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Jobs, Thinking, Australia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Nature, Community, Infrastructure

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• What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It is only in your thoughts and in analytical processes that you lose yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Dog, Sleep, Writing

  Alice Weaver Flaherty (2015). “The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Just as I defend myself, therefore,
  From all unpleasant happenings however small,
  Likewise, I shall act for others' sake
  To guard and to protect them with compassion.

  Shantideva

  Compassion, Protect, Happenings

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• ... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power to become children of God instead of children of flesh and blood if we have faith in His Name (cf. Jn. 1:12-13). For the Savior the sequence was, first of all, incarnation and bodily birth for my sake; and so thereupon the birth in the Spirit through baptism, originally spurned by Adam, for the sake of my salvation and restoration by grace, or, to describe it even more vividly, my very remaking.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Children

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