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    Use "self-sacrifice" in a sentence

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    self-sacrifice


    1. advantage of it to the point where it demands undesired self-sacrifice


    2. When his days of toil and self-sacrifice had finally ended he would have been granted the honor of rotting alongside his predecessors


    3. Dreaming that you are making a self-sacrifice means that you need to eliminate certain aspects of your life and make time and space for more productive and rewarding experiences


    4. Self-sacrifice was thus rewarded in Cuba


    5. Heroism and self-sacrifice existed along the whole line, and such officers can lead men to do anything, anywhere


    6. The opponents of ―Wealth‖ oftentimes ignore its humbler origins by rejecting off-hand the many hardships that many financially successful individuals had to endure—hard work, taking calculated risks and self-sacrifice in order to acquire their fortune(s)


    7. The de-emphasizing of Christ‘s Divinity by nominal ―Christians,‖ (Protestants and sadly, Catholics alike), stressing His good works and moral teachings (only); that is to say, His ―Humanism‖ in contrast with His Divinity, is troubling to traditional believers who correctly understand that without the Resurrection, the redemption of sin occasioned by His own self-sacrifice is meaningless


    8. My father says—used to say—that there is power in self-sacrifice


    9. I was sure I wanted to emulate their self-sacrifice


    10. sage of the church in social ethics, notably the values of cooperation, brotherhood, simplicity of tastes, and the spirit of self-sacrifice

    11. And you were ennobled as a hero, having given your life in the greatest act of bravery, honor, and self-sacrifice the world had seen to that time


    12. Such self-sacrifice is rare in one


    13. leads to self-sacrifice, there is something wrong with the quality of one's own self-regard


    14. your previous lives of self-sacrifice; see to it that in this body you prove


    15. Again, they had learned that their self-esteem was based on self-sacrifice


    16. The old religion taught self-sacrifice; the new religion teaches only self-forgetfulness, enhanced self-realization in conjoined social service and universe comprehension


    17. Self-sacrifice for the good of another, the only path to redemption


    18. This pastor also reported that the white missionaries’ self-sacrifice inspired African leaders to higher levels of commitment in their own outreaches


    19. The One chose me because I have a high level of empathy for others and because I showed a spirit of self-sacrifice and justice that pleased it, not because I was a talented soldier


    20. He had to give her credit for her courage and sense of self-sacrifice, but he could not let his feelings towards her affect his plans

    21. self-sacrifice in the very name of insuring this element for endless


    22. The deed performed must be one of personal bravery or self-sacrifice so conspicuous as to clearly distinguish the individual above his comrades and must have involved risk of life


    23. As for the why, I believe that me and Nancy were chosen because our souls had the qualities of kindness, compassion, tolerance and self-sacrifice that The One wanted in people that would then promote his words and goals on Earth


    24. Mars is aggressive energy – courage, valor, athletics, self-sacrifice for a cause; male friends and lovers, dynamism


    25. This is the core of the godhead is sacrificial, self-sacrifice and giving and generously serving


    26. Constantly cursed the work of ours – self-sacrificed in bars of unreplenished


    27. Needless to say, it reveals a rare strength of character and a great ability for self-sacrifice born out of a strong personal conviction


    28. ” Another one of his under-appreciated acts of self-sacrifice


    29. She was very kind, and laid her hand for a moment on mine,--such a bony hand, marked all over, I thought as I looked down at it, with the traces of devotion and self-sacrifice


    30. Such love and self-sacrifice is a very binding thing

    31. "A creature of the most complete self-sacrifice," continued Fanny, the cold beetroot and sardines vivid before her eyes


    32. Not too long before, I’d been pretty cool with the idea of surrendering myself to get Justine back, but self-sacrifice suddenly seemed a good deal more concrete and terrifying


    33. “Perhaps you could go out onto the battlefield and set an example of self-sacrifice, for the greater glory of the Reich


    34. Sometimes, the procedure is presented as if the “killed” animal commits an act of self-sacrifice and wishes to be eaten by its worshipers


    35. that poverty and self-sacrifice are pleasing to God


    36. There is so much pointless self-sacrifice, so much energy wasted just to keep rich people from dying


    37. We are trained to reject the ethic of self-sacrifice and the ethic of giving


    38. But life is not possible without self-sacrifice


    39. All the humanizing aspects of love, marriage, raising children, cooperation and team sports, are not possible without self-sacrifice


    40. Self-sacrifice is the necessary training all people must undergo in order to develop and discover the deepest joys and happiness, which comes from true giving

    41. Hardship becomes a humanizing force only if there is some element of self-sacrifice


    42. By not training and teaching our children hardship and self-sacrifice, by only teaching them the ethic of self-gratification: modern consumer culture has doomed billions to shallow, unhappy lives; poisoned by greed, selfishness, egoism, arrogance, smugness, cowardice, dishonesty, and all the other vices that modern civilization nurtures and promotes


    43. How people can be trained to worship the idea of self-sacrifice embodied in a deified figurehead… but never dream of even attempting to do it themselves


    44. The Poisoning of Self-Love and Self-Sacrifice


    45. Altar–The central (4th) Spirit of the Seven Spirits of God, which embodies self-sacrifice,


    46. a saint involves self-sacrifice as symbolized by the Altar of God


    47. when the moon became as blood, it symbolizes that false doctrine and folly were foolishly viewed as if they were virtue, righteousness, and self-sacrifice


    48. Since literal blood is the essence of life, this tells us that self-sacrifice is at the heart of the Spirit of Life, which are the Seven Spirits of God


    49. Likewise, blood symbolizes self-sacrifice and virtue and is associated with both the heart and God’s


    50. Thereby, the fourth spirit of self-sacrifice and virtue in the Spirit of Good (God), of which














































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    Synonyms for "self-sacrifice"

    self-restraint abstemiousness self-control sobriety temperance