Quotes About Sacrifice

God took on our humanity, our sin, and the just punishment that sin deserves, dying a God-forsaken, hellish death on the cross, because only this could rescue us from our self-chosen destruction. God expresses unsurpassable love for us and ascribes unsurpassable worth to us by sacrificing the One who has unsurpassable value on our behalf!

Christ's incarnation challenges us to give up our rights in order to love God and others. Philippians 2:6-7 says, "who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped, but emptied himself..." Christ did not hold onto his rights and privileges as deity but relinquished them in order to better love God and others.

Christ's incarnation challenges us to be servants of God and others. In Philippians 2:7, Paul said Christ "emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature." A slave or servant is consumed with the desires of those he serves. Likewise, instead of living for himself and his comfort, Christ sought to sacrificially serve God and others with his life.

Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give

In a fearful, eroding democracy, it remains to be seen whether art continues to be free to act in the public sphere or is driven underground once more. Too many solutions involve continuing sacrifice by artists bucking the system, who are rarely rewarded for their hard work.

For an All-Expenses-Paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off it's wings? What about stepping on a cockroach?

The funny thing about firemen is, night and day, they are always firemen.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Love is the most complex of all human phenomena. It exists on a spectrum from tolerance and kindness to romantic love and self-sacrifice, reaching its pinnacle in altruism, a love that needs nothing in return.

Motivated authors sacrifice TV time, sleep, hobbies, and even family time.

Si va avanti a spintoni e a ricatti... Il piacere come dovere. Il peccato come necessità. La rosa da cogliere come obbligo di pungersi. La gioia di volare come impegno di sfracellarsi. Il frutto da mordere come precetto di lasciarci la mano.

La Puce Puces, amis, amantes même, Qu'ils sont cruels ceux qui nous aiment! Tout notre sang coule pour eux. Les bien-aimés sont malheureux.

You only really deserve love if you give your whole body and soul to it, throwing yourself in and risking everything.

Se iubesc. Cu o iubire care le-a intrat in sange. Intr-o betie permanenta. In clipa si intru eternitate. Si, in acelasi timp, teama e pretutindeni Teama de lipsa celuilalt Teama de a se trezi fara oxigen.

Quizá era momento de claudicar en mis anhelos de grandeza. Convertirme en una mamá modelo dedicada al cien por ciento a mis hijos y a mi marido. Olvidarme de que solo a través de la danza podía alcanzar mis metas y vivir más en concordia con mis posibilidades. En otras palabras, aceptar mi mediocridad y mi pusilanimidad

Sigmund Freud en Tótem y tabú cuando aseveró que los hijos debían matar simbólica o literalmente al padre.

Salvaje. Seré el Salvaje. No me van a detener. Si me he de vengar, me vengaré. Si he de perdonar, perdonaré. Si he de amar, amaré. Si he de renunciar, renunciaré. Si he de pelear, pelearé. Me queda claro que es la vida —no la muerte— la que guiará mis decisiones. Daré la vida por la vida, siempre por la vida.

Las cosas que hacemos por amor son desagradables, dementes, llenas de sudor y remordimiento —caminó hacia Edith, quien se contuvo para no gritar. —Este amor te quema y te mutila y te retuerce de adentro hacia fuera. Es un amor monstruoso y nos transforma en monstruos.

In the dark, I heard your voice. What did you say? I said, "Hey, you on the other side, let her go. Because for her… for her I'll cross over. And then you'll be sorry.

a la pobreza se le pega donde más le duele, tirando al aire lo poco que se tiene en la bolsa.

Just watch me. Do what I do. These guys will tell you that I am a monster, but I'm the only grunt in this squad that doesn't have his head up his ass. In this world of shit, monsters live forever and everybody else dies. If you kill for fun, you're a sadist. If you kill for money, you're a mercenary. If you kill for both, you're a Marine.

Der Geschlechtstrieb ist das Joch vor dem Triumphwagen der Meduse, an den wir geschirrt sind.

AN oracle had informed King Acrisius of Argos that his grandson would deprive him of his throne and his life. Because of this he had his daughter Danae and Perseus, her child by Zeus, shut in a chest and cast into the sea.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.