Quotes About Sacrifice

You can't save the world, so don't sacrifice your happiness trying.' 

It seemed Eve's bite from the apple of knowledge was a debt women were doomed to pay for eternity.

To do nothing is to welcome Dante's hell - cramped and starving, weltering in Sin. And so boldly I have taken action. Some will recoil in horror, but all salvation comes at a price. One day the world will grasp the beauty of my sacrifice.

A Pope usually worked fourteen-hour days, seven days a week, and died of exhaustion in an average of 6.3 years. The inside joke was that accepting the papacy was a cardinal's 'fastest route to heaven.

Worshipping God is like mining for fossil fuels," someone argued. "Plenty of smart people know it is shortsighted, and yet they have too much invested to stop!

The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change. From the scarified Nubian priests of 2000 B.C., to the tattooed acolytes of the Cybele cult of ancient Rome, to the moko scars of the modern Maori, humans have tattooed themselves as a way of offering up their bodies in partial sacrifice, enduring the physical pain of embellishment and emerging changed beings.

Silas knew the stakes were incalculable, and yet what the Teacher was now commanding seemed impossible.

Debemos estar dispuestos a renunciar a la vida que hemos planeado para poder disfrutar de la vida que nos espera. JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Some must die that others may live.

Então, quer dizer que, mesmo tendo o poder de interferir e evitar que seu filho sentisse dor, você optaria por demonstrar seu amor deixando-o aprender suas próprias lições? - Claro, a dor é parte do crescimento. É como aprendemos. O camerlengo sacudiu a cabeça. - Exatamente. Cap. 89

Martyrdom is at the heart of all religion.

el autosacrificio de un hombre joven para redimir los pecados de su pueblo aparece en la tradición de Quetzalcóatl

A Pope usually worked fourteen-hour days, seven days a week, and died of exhaustion in an average of 6.3 years. The inside joke was that accepting the papacy was a cardinal's "fastest route to heaven.

As anyone who read religious history could attest nothing cemented people's belief faster than a human being dying for his cause. Christ on the cross. The Kedoshim of Judaism. The Shahid of Islam. Martyrdom is at the heart of all religion . - Robert Langdon

Langdon frowned at his own apparently inferior phone. Just then Ambra reached over and gently pried it from his hands. Without a word, she held it over the railing and let go. Langdon watched the phone plummet down and splash into the dark waters of the Nervión River. As it disappeared beneath the surface, he felt a pang of loss, staring back after it as the boat raced on

The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change. From the scarified Nubian priests of 2000 B.C., to the tattooed acolytes of the Cybele cult of ancient Rome, to the moko scars of the modern Maori, humans have tattooed themselves as a way of offering up their bodies in partial sacrifice, enduring the physical pain of embellishment and emerging changed beings. Despite

Unfortunately, like so many divine quests, this crusade ended in crucifixion.

Jesús soportó el dolor en la cruz durante tres días!»

A paunchy man in a tuxedo and a black cowboy hat was smiling broadly at him. Great Costume! the man said, pointing to Avila's military uniform. Where does someone get something like that? Through a lifetime of service and sacrifice,he thought

No matter what ya do to help somebody, it'll hurt somebody else.

I gave my clothes away. How could I think about clothes when the poor people of Florida don't even have a place to live?

What is to give light must endure burning. VIKTOR FRANKL

Sol Weintraub suddenly understood perfectly why Abraham had agreed to sacrifice Isaac, his son, when the Lord commanded him to do so. It was not obedience. It was not even to put the love of God above the love of his son. Abraham was testing God. By denying the sacrifice at the last moment, by stopping the knife, God had earned the right—in Abraham's eyes and the hearts of his offspring—to become the God of Abraham. Sol

But, Dad…" She hesitated. "It will mean raising me all over again. It means suffering through my childhood for a third time. No parent should be asked to do that." Sol managed a smile. "No parent would refuse that, Rachel.