Sacrifice - Words used in A Course in Miracles

Sacrifice is an idea, that a vengeful God demands  punishment - God's response to our independence. How better to demonstrate this than the idea that God demanded his own Son pay "the ultimate price" in order to "redeem" mankind.

   A Course in Miracles knows that God's Love is freely given and has no "cost". 

 The Holy Spirit never asks for sacrifice, but the ego always does.   T-7.X.5:5.

Innocence is incapable of sacrificing anything, because the innocent mind has everything and strives only to protect its wholeness. It cannot project. It can only honor other minds, because honor is the natural greeting of the truly loved to others who are like them. T-3.I.6:1-3.

… fact that sacrifice gets nothing. Sacrifice is so essential to your thought system that salvation apart from sacrifice means nothing to you. Your confusion of sacrifice and love is so profound that you cannot conceive of love without sacrifice. And it is this that you must look upon; sacrifice is attack, not love.                        T-15.X.5:6-11.

You who believe that sacrifice is love must learn thatsacrifice is separation from love. For sacrifice brings guilt as surely as love brings peace. Guilt is the condition of sacrifice, as peace is the condition for the awareness of your relationship with God. T-15.XI.4:1-3.