Quotes About Sacrifice

To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.

I will hold her hand at the end, and I will pass soon after, for we are one heart, and neither of us would be of use without the other.

If I ever sold my soul, it'd be for you.

The stakes were suddenly so high that we wanted out of the game. When you're playing poker with the devil, however, no one leaves the table before he does.

was not merely weak but also evil to throw away your life when so many had their lives or the promise of their future taken from them by cruel people or by the brutal forces of nature.

The news isn't all the news, Jonah. Not by a long shot. It's just what reporters want to tell you about. Riots come and go, wars come and go, but under the tumult, day after day, century after century, millions of people are doing nice things for one another, making sacrifices, mostly small things, but it's all those little kindnesses that hold civilization together, all those people who live quiet lives and never make the news.

Annamaria insists that mere hours earlier, I saved entire cities, sparing many hundreds of thousands from nuclear terrorism. Even if that is most likely true, I feel as though, in the process, I have forfeited a piece of my soul.

Earlier, she asked if I would die for her. Without hesitation, I said that I would—and meant it. I don't understand either my reaction to her or the source of her power. She is something other than she appears to be. She tells me that I already know what she is and that I only need to accept the knowledge that I already possess.

journeying through the fields of evil is the price we pay for free will

Men and women who seek to become gods must first lose their humanity.

one of those doctors who work for nothing in countries that are so poor the people have no money, so they trade with one another using bricks of dry animal dung they can burn to heat their hovels and a few diseased chickens and maybe some edible tubers that they dig out of the floor of a snake-infested jungle

The price I paid for that lesson has left my heart an almost empty purse, with just two coins or three clinking at the bottom.

She might lose everything, including her island and, for a time, her freedom.

Poor Clares.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves"—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. And "Greater love hath no man than this: that he lay down his life for his friends"—The Gospel According to Saint John.)

Teach us… To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds; To toil and not to seek for rest… —St. Ignatius Loyola

But once in a while, they have to see one of their own get his package cut off just so they'll stop and wonder if maybe there is a god.

he pours three types of blood into the hole—cat, rat, and human.

She clung to life, not for herself, but for Julia's sake. It hurt her to know Ruth was in pain. Why did those who were good always have to suffer?

So for anybody who feels guilty that they're taking time away from their family, or the cost of what they are doing, they should not feel guilty, because they are contributing [...] they are teaching what it means to have a dream and to be passionate about something. Nothing of value comes easy.

The military might have its heroes, but the wives were the backbone

At Stone's direction, Harry removed ovaries, blinded the female rats, and removed their olfactory bulbs. Sightless, hormone-deprived—it didn't matter. The mother rats crawled determinedly toward the baby rats. They were slower, maybe, but the homing instinct was magnetic, needle to the north.

At the present time I am spending nearly $300 a month from my own personal funds for work which in my opinion has absolutely to be done to keep up the work of the office

There are few things in life as precious to us as our children. Rare is the woman or the man who wouldn't readily die for his or her offspring.