Quotes About Sacrifice

That sort of calculus is easy enough if the potential good is to unidentified people. It's easy to dismiss a faceless abstraction. It's much harder to look a real person in the eye and say: 'For my belief in the inviolability of the eight-cell embryo you must die.' That's often what the 'saviour sibling' cases boil down to.

The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.

A martyr to the cause of man, His blood is freedom's eucharist, And in the world's great hero list His name shall lead the van.

Senin kurallar?n" dedi Revell, "Kendi kurallar?nda kaybedeceksin. Kara kutunun beni durduraca??n? söylüyorsun ve bu kara kutu benim ben olmam? engelleyecek demek. Ben yanl?? olduÄŸunu söylüyorum. Ben terk ettikçe senin kaybettiÄŸini söylüyorum ve eÄŸer kara kutu beni öldürürse, sonsuza dek sen kaybedersin.

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

My dear Arnold, we all hope that you have before you a distinguished political career. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

The three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

Love is my religion — I could die for that.

Yes, having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

Helpless, cruel hours of waiting in the night; lying on the left side the heart is smothered; turning on the right side, still no comfort; finally lying on the back; always a prey to the energy of the child, trying with one's hands pressed on the swelling body to give a message to the child. Cruel hours of tender waiting in the night. What seems countless nights passing like this. With what a price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

There is no short cut. For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

The gardener who loves roses is slave to a thousand thorns.

A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.

The elation of flying is worth the pain of sprouting wings.

No man actually owns a fortune; it owns him.

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.

the love of one true man is worth a life's devotion

A man would require a brave heart, indeed, to ask any woman he loved to share the hardships and dangers of a missionary's life.

Iam-se amodorrando e foram despertados por Baleia, que trazia nos dentes um preá. Levantaram-se todos gritando. O menino mais velho esfregou as pálpebras, afastando pedaços de sonho. Sinha Vitória beijava o focinho de Baleia, e como o focinho estava ensanguentado, lambia o sangue e tirava proveito do beijo.

Quando o cristão bota a corda no pescoço, o diabo se pendura nos ombros dele.

Jews also did not accept the idea that mankind can be saved through the sacrifice of Jesus, or by anyone else, but only through righteous living, as prescribed by Jewish Law.

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?

Why does the life everlasting have to be won at such terrible cost? If the life everlasting is true, why can it be achieved only through death, through grief, and through agony? What kind of God is it who gives us the world and everything in it, and the capabiliiy of loving so fiercely, and then takes it all away?