Quotes About Sacrifice

Cuando el fin es sublime, todo lo que se sufre para conseguirlo no lo es menos.

Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius

I suspected later that I might actually saved lives by killing some of them.

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

Those who saw the famous film The Bridge on the River Kwai will remember the absurd zeal with which the English officer, prisoner of the Japanese, strives to build an audacious wooden bridge for them and is shocked when he realizes that the English sappers have mined it. So you see, love for a job well done is a deeply ambiguous virtue.

Prometheus had been foolish to bestow fire on men instead of selling it to them: he would have made money, placated Jove, and avoided all that trouble with the vulture.

According to Scripture, the number-one purpose of marriage—more than even the unique, time-honored partnership it creates between a man and woman, more than even the conceiving and raising of children, more than any Prince Charming fairy tale in any little girl's head—is how it represents the mystery of the gospel in active, living form.

It was for freedom that Christ set us free" (Gal. 5:1).

Sometimes the divine intervention of God means breaking allegiance with what you love.

blessing. • When you consider your level of willingness to give of yourself, does it reveal more contentment or discontentment residing

Ja volim samoubilacki-krvnicki nemilosrdno i brutalno. Necu drugacije. Ko to moze da izdrzi, a upoznah samo jednog. 'Moja je krv moj put do tebe.

Paissez, bons peuples, L'appel de l'honneur ne vous réveillera pas. Les cadeaux de la liberté Ne sont rien pour des troupeaux. Ils doivent être abattus ou tondus.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

Our devotion must culminate in a conscious yielding of every part of our personality, every ambition, every relationship, and every hope to Him. This done, we have reached the apex of personal devotion

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having all our money.

The Men of the Ordeal do not march to save the World, Proyas--at least not first and foremost. They march to save their wives and children. Their tribes and their nations. If they learn that the world, their world, slips into ruin behind them, that their wives and daughters may perish for want of their shields, their swords, the Host of Hosts would melt about the edges, then collapse.

Conceit does not sit well with martyrdom.

The genius of most men lay in finding reasons after their actions. The heart was ever self-serving, especially when the beliefs served involved sacrifice.

When we believe without ground or cause, Proyas, conviction is all we possess, and acts of conviction become our only demonstration. Our beliefs become our God, and we make sacrifices to appease them.

The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness

You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for love. Myrnin.

Promise me, Amelie, that you'll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love." "I hardly think there's any chance of that," Amelie said. I doubt you have the capacity.

Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldn't even be rude to evil vampires who'd caged her boyfriend and were preparing to roast him alive.

Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn't just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.