One of my all time favorite quotes from Neal A Maxwell:
So it is that real, personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the altar. Instead, it is a willingness to put the animal in us upon the altar and letting it be consumed! Such is the “sacrifice unto the Lord … of a broken heart and a contrite spirit,” (D&C 59:8), a prerequisite to taking up the cross, while giving “away all [our] sins” in order to “know God” (Alma 22:18) for the denial of self precedes the full acceptance of Him.
That's wonderful. It reminds me of a lesson once in RS where we talked about a "broken" heart, meaning "broken" like you break in a horse, not broken like sad. Broken as in submissive and obedient.
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