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Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you

Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

Jim Butcher
Hero, Sacrifice, Making Sacrifices
Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.167, Penguin

But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

Jim Butcher
Hero, Sacrifice, Perfect
Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.167, Penguin

The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

Jim Butcher
Sacrifice, Thinking, Looks
Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.43, Penguin

Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable.

Jim Butcher
Pain, Mean, Sacrifice
Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.11, Penguin

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