Quotes About Sacrifice

He was the kind of dog whose heart was too big for his own body, and so he continuously offered it up to me.

There are always sides. There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

Then you're the one. Allie blinked at him. The one what? The one who loves more. ... You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone always puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

On the other side of the curtain, two separate wars were being fought. One was to save the life of a women who'd been beaten to near death by her husband. The other was to allow her child to have any kind of a life at all.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

getting what you want isn't instant gratification. It's a slow pulling apart, a realignment of bones and sinew. There are aches involved. There is bruising.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone else suffer than it does to take the pain yourself?

Terkadang kau harus jadi manusia yang buruk demi menjadi ibu yang baik.

she'd wager that they weren't single moms who'd had to poke the radiator vents with a yardstick at 3:00 a.m. to prove that there weren't any snakes hiding in the dark tunnels.

No. Because when you love someone, no matter what you tell yourself, it stops being a job. What does it become? Patrick thought for a moment. Revenge.

Love's the strongest energy. Katie and I loved each other. We couldn't love each other in my world, and we couldn't love each other in her world. But all that love, all that energy, it had to go somewhere. It went into that baby. His voice broke. Even if we couldn't have each other, we would have both had him. -Adam, Plain Truth

What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else? -Plain Truth

But I decided that buying the gift was more for me than for her, anyhow. A commercial kind of substitute for prayer.

The person who represents a Lobby in Congress is never the one who makes the real decisions; the real leaders are rarely identifiable and are never held responsible for their actions. If a puppet gets in trouble they sacrifice him and haul out another.

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

Women must be weak to love a baby enough to hold it to their breast. Women's hearts must be weak to sacrifice for their children. Women must be weak to take the seed of the man. Because women are weak, a woman cannot keep the truth. Love triumphs over truth. So a woman's words are lies." 

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed, John Bunyan writes. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.24

So how does one prepare his or her heart for martyrdom?

his soul until he actually began to sweat blood.

I think it is important that we shed our false notions that martyrdom

Kim Sun-il died

All the best elements of patriotism—the spirit of sacrifice, the desire for justice and protection for the oppressed—sprouted in the soil of chivalry. It is in the classic country of chivalry

Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.