Quotes About Sacrifice

Im Kampf gegen den Terror zählt [...] die Freiheit des Einzelnen wenig.

The cross is the divine settlement with the divine condemnation of sin.

God is above the world, and is also above sin and all evil. He allowed it because he could expiate it. So he maintained through all centuries and among all men the longing and the capacity for redemption, and wrought that redemption himself in the fulness of time, in the midst of history, in the crucified Christ.

The truth is of more value than empirical life: Christ sacrificed his life for it.

The heaven that he won for us by his atoning death presupposes a hell from which he delivered us. The eternal life he imparted to us presupposes an eternal death from which he saved us.

Love wasn't just a soft, easy thing of the senses. It was hard, deep, austere.

Life is made up of many comings and goings and for everything that we take with us,we must leave something behind

A man who sacrifices himself must be a decent chap.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

True idealists, in contrast, care about the welfare of others above and especially against their own interests. If you enjoy your work or profit from it, how can you be sure you're truly doing it for others and not yourself?

After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.

No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

Knights who go charging after fire-breathing dragons out of some sense of duty to protect their fair maidens die in vain.

He served his god so faithfully and well That now he sees him face to face in hell.

I do give them to you," he announced. "Of my free will. Because this is my sword." He laid a hand on Arisa's shoulder. "And Weasle is my shield. What you hold are only pieces of iron.

But at what price? What would she have to block out, just to go from one day to the next? You'll never understand the choice I've had to make. Either way, her life is over. Living like that; or prison. It's the end. Either one will break her.

Mother Teresa said that for a sacrifice to be real, it must cost, must hurt, and we must empty ourselves,

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. —William Butler Yeats

Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she says sweetly, she will become a nun: if the king will become a monk.

Inside his copy of The Social Contract he keeps a letter from a young Picard, an enthusiast called Antoine Saint-Just: "I know you, Robespierre, as I know God, by your works." When he suffers, as he does increasingly, from a distressing tightness of the chest and shortness of breath, and when his eyes seem too tired to focus on the printed page, the thought of the letter urges the weak flesh to more Works.

It's all right for you, you and Danton. I have to go and stutter for two hours at the Jacobins and probably be knocked down again by maddened violin makers and trampled by all sorts of tradesmen. Whilst Danton spends his evenings feeling up his new girlfriend and you lie around here in a nice fever, not too high. If you're an instrument of destiny, and anyone would do instead, why don't you take a holiday?

He cannot quite accept that real property cannot be changed into money with the same speed and ease with which he changes a wafer into the body of Christ.