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It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

John Ruskin
Sacrifice, Giving, Religion
John Ruskin (1855). “¬The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.17
It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.