Quotes About Sacrifice

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

I love you," she says. "I love you," I say. And then we hang up, because nothing else needs to be said after that. I want to give Zara her life back. Even if I feel I deserve something like this, I don't deserve it at her expense.

Jesus died for our sins, Noah says solemnly. What?!? I reply, choking back my thoughts. I was just seeing if you were listening.

I know there are epic tales of romance, where love means you're supposed to die. Where it's all about sacrifice. But I don't want to die. I don't want Stephen to die. I'm looking for the scenario where we both get to live. Where we can continue this marvel that is love and discovery and trust.

The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

Even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.

Just be warned, you said. Some day you will ask me to give up something I really love, and then it`s going to get ugly.

You were the sun, and I wasn't even the moon. I loved being the supporting character, because I felt it was my way of supporting you. I asked for nothing in return and wanted so much.

Love means never having to lose your limbs.

The things you love are the things that will destroy you.

To get something, you must give something away. To hold something, you must give something away. To love something, you must give something away.

I love a man who doesn't let go of the leash, even when it leads him to ruin.

Just be warned," you said. "Someday you'll ask me to give up something I really love, and then it's going to get ugly.

haul, v.: Yes, love will bend you over, make you strain. That is the burden of having something worth carrying forward.

By losing myself to her, I gain her.

When the heart stops, you die. Love is everywhere that life is, and if there is no love for life, you die. Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself.

you will rip yourself to shreds to prove that I am worth loving. you will not hear the chorus of everyone I've let down

I found the strength to see her, to cheer her, to not look away. It was taking a toll, but it was a toll I willingly paid.

A lot of the time, love feels like it's about figuring out what the other person wants and giving it over. Sometimes that's impossible. But sometimes it's pretty simple.

Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.

Yes, we must believe that Christ is the Son of God, that He took on human form, lived a sinless life, and died a sacrificial death for our sins (2 Cor. 5:21). We must acknowledge our own sinful state and repent (Luke 13:3), turn to Christ, and trust Him for the forgiveness of our sins and for our eternal salvation, based solely on His grace and nothing we have merited.

From the scalped bodies of ancient warriors to the suicide bombers in today's newspaper headlines, history is drenched in human blood.

Modern men have inherited from their ancestors psychological mechanisms that not only give priority to resources and status but also lead men to make great sacrifices and take great risks to attain resources and status.

This new lot...they too would go down. They were 'troops' who were about to be 'thrown in,' 'men' in some general's larger plan, 're-enforcements ' and would soon be 'casualties'. They were also Spud, Snow, Skeeter, Blue, Tommo.