We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
True divine guidance asks you to focus on service. False guidance is more ego-oriented, more about what's in it for you - for example, more focused on making money for its own sake. True guidance may help you make money, but it won't focus on that.
Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.
People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.
We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.
Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
Belgarath turned back to Senji. “All right,” he said. “The Sardion came to Zamad. How?” “It’s said to have fallen out of the sky. ” “They always do,” Beldin said. “Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.
My parents are private investigators for God's sake.
The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.
I don't like to be provocative for the sake of being provocative.
Allow me to draw your attention to the value and beauty of marriage. The complementarity of man and woman, the vertex of the divine creation, is being questioned by gender ideology, in the name of a freer and more just society. The difference between man and woman is not meant to stand in opposition, or to subordinate, but is for the sake of communion and generation, always 'in the image and likeness of God. '
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must crystallize his ideas and set off in an particular direction. He must learn that shooting for the sake of shooting is dull and unprofitable.
Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.
If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.
Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland
Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.
If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.