Quotes About Sacrifice

Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?' I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. 'What irony?' I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. 'That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.

The history that one can create with a friend, a lifetime of history and shared experience, is a wonderful thing and shabbily sacrificed. And yet a true friend is a rare thing; sometimes those whom we perceive as friends are simply people with whom we spend a lot of time.

I suppose you wish you'd won the war." I raised an eyebrow. "Oh, Mr. Darcy-Witt," I said, as if I were explaining something obvious to a child. "No one wins a war.

But then I didn't know what I was giving up until it was already gone. No one ever does, do they?

a story of a boy who had started out with love and decency in his heart but had found himself corrupted by power. The story of a boy who had committed crimes with which he would have to live for ever; a boy who had hurt people who loved him and been a party to the deaths of those who only ever showed him kindness; who had sacrificed his right to his own name and would have to spend a lifetime trying to earn it back again.

I'm not sure any cause is worth giving your life for

the priests said that food was not there to be enjoyed but simply to keep us alive. Simplicity of diet was important.

Children will invest as much energy as is needed to ensure the preservation of family harmony, even if it means sacrificing themselves to do so by developing psychological disorders. —Joel Covitz Emotional Child Abuse

Best if the driver didn't have to get hurt. Though having been fool enough to volunteer for army service, of course, and worse still, having been fool enough to accept orders unquestioningly from a machine... But everybody did that. Everybody, all the time. Otherwise none of this would have been possible. Similarly, none of it would have had to happen.

Well, she is my most beloved and adored kinswoman, and for her sake I would commit most crimes.

What's dooty, if you won't carry it to the other side of Hell? What's the use of yapping about your country if you're going to keep something back when she calls for it? What's the good of meaning to win the war if you don't put every cent you've got on your stake?... No, Dick, that kind of dooty don't deserve a blessing. You dursn't keep anything back if you want to save your soul.

There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

So he had them into the slaughter house, where was a butcher killing a sheep. And behold, the sheep was quiet and took her death patiently. Then said the Interpreter, You must learn of this sheep to suffer, and put up wrongs without murmurings and complaints. Behold how quietly she takes her death! And without objecting she suffereth her skin to be pulled over her ears. Your King doth call you his sheep.

He ran till he came to a small hill, at the top of which stood a cross and at the bottom of which was a tomb. I saw in my dream that when Christian walked up the hill to the cross, his burden came loose from his shoulders and fell off his back, tumbling down the hill until it came to the mouth of the tomb, where it fell in to be seen no more.

O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou mayest not die. Because I live thou shalt live also; I reconciled thee to my Father by the blood of My cross, and being reconciled thou shalt live through me. I will pray for thee, I will fight for thee, I will yet do thee good. Nothing can hurt thee but sin; nothing can grieve Me but sin; nothing can make thee base before thy foes but sin; take heed of sin, my Mansoul.

is the heavenly glory of so little worth with him, that he counteth it not worth running the risk of a few difficulties to obtain it?

Sí, señora, aunque bien contra mi voluntad: especialmente mis propios pensamientos carnales, que tanto nos complacían a mí y a mis paisanos; pero ahora todas estas cosas me pesan tanto que, si la elección fuera solo mía, nunca más pensaría en ellas. Pero cuando quiero hacer el bien, entonces veo que el mal está en mí3.

lo que Él hizo en obediencia a la ley de su Padre, y al someterse al castigo de ella, no fue para sí mismo sino para aquel que lo acepta para su salvación, y es agradecido.

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt. – Heb. 11:25-26)

Jesus has given me rest by means of His sorrow and life by means of His death!

Blessed Cross! Blessed grave! Blessed rather be    The Man who there was put to shame for me.

En segundo lugar, debes aborrecer su empeño por hacer que la cruz te resulte odiosa, porque has de preferirla 'antes que los tesoros en Egipto'. Además, el Rey de Gloria te había dicho que 'todo el que quiera salvar su vida, la perderá', y 'Si alguno viene a mí, y no aborrece a su padre, y madre, y mujer, e hijos, y hermanos, y hermanas, y aun también su propia vida, no puede ser mi discípulo'.

Having made profession of the glorious gospel of Christ a long time, and preached the same about five years, I was apprehended at a meeting of good people in the country (among whom, had they let me alone, I should have preached that day, but they took me away from amongst them), and had me before a justice; who, after I had offered security for my appearing at the next sessions, yet committed me, because my sureties would not consent to be bound that I should preach no more to the people.