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If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.
- AW Tozer
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
- Aristotle
To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Heaven is but a company of noble venturers for Christ. They are not worthy of Him who will not take a blow for the Master's sake.
- Samuel Rutherford
An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.
- Michael Ignatieff
God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn't just happen to Him. He chose it as the way to create and perfect the church. Now He calls us to choose suffering. That is, He calls us to take up our cross and follow Him on the Calvary road and deny ourselves and make sacrifices for the sake of ministering to the church and presenting His sufferings to the world.
- John Piper
We are created for the sake of love. When we experience love in family life, it is heavenly, but it is still only an image of the greater glory we hope to behold in heaven.
- Scott Hahn
Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian behaviour. The Christian is called to sympathy and action, not in the first place by his own sufferings, but by the sufferings of his brethren, for whose sake Christ suffered.
- Eric Metaxas
The Good is one thing; the reward is something else. To will the Good for the sake of reward is not to will one thing but two. If a man loves a woman for the sake of her wealth, who will call him a lover? To will the Good for the sake of reward is hypocrisy — sheer duplicity!
- Soren Kierkegaard
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
- Aristotle
Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power.
- Frank Herbert
There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less.
- AW Tozer