The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.
- Elisabeth Elliot
I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.
- Walt Whitman
Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.