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To: .30Carbine
[ FRiends: It cannot be rightly called love if one has to earn it...or if it could ever be unearned. Amen! Love to you in Christ our Lord! ]

Love is sacrifice.. What you sacrifice for; you love.. what you will not sacrifice for; you do not love.. Its all in degrees too.. Some people love "their CAR".. Some have levels of sacrifice.. But sacrifice is love and love is sacrifice.. Love does not have to be earned.. but sacrifice can be answered with sacrifice.. a circle of love.. Sacrifice occurs on many levels.. there is and can be an economy of sacrifice..

Those that neglect to sacrifice are unhappy people.. and are takers.. the givers love to sacrifice.. Sacrificing your personal resources and self brings joy.. Hoarding of those things brings sorrow.. and loneliness.. Thats pretty much the lessons God tried to teach the Jews in the Temple.. and as Jesus in the New Testament.. i.e. pick you're cross and follow me..

2,211 posted on 02/18/2008 8:30:06 AM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: hosepipe

Those that neglect to sacrifice are unhappy people.. and are takers.. the givers love to sacrifice.. Sacrificing your personal resources and self brings joy.. Hoarding of those things brings sorrow.. and loneliness.. Thats pretty much the lessons God tried to teach the Jews in the Temple.. and as Jesus in the New Testament.. i.e. pick you’re cross and follow me..

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INDEED.


2,214 posted on 02/18/2008 8:52:30 AM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: hosepipe

***Love is sacrifice.***

No it is not. Love is an emotional condition. Sacrifice is works.

***What you sacrifice for; you love***

Usually, but not guaranteed.

***Sacrificing your personal resources and self brings joy***

Gotta watch this. Renaissance Italians and West Coast Indians gave huge parties in which they sacrificed part of their wealth. Not all sacrifices are good or pleasing to God.


2,288 posted on 02/19/2008 9:37:47 AM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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