Quotes About Sacrifice

in the face of horror, ancient rituals regained their meaning

Rose wasn't 'ordinary'. What was I supposed to do? Wrap her in cotton wool? Tell her 'Here, I could give you the universe, but I'm not going to in case you get hurt? There's all this stuff out there, all these planets, all these wonders, but I want you to stay at home and work in a shop?

Shame, isn't it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are 'spit and polished,' and not when they're showing us the wounds they suffered on our behalf.

Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to think hopefully of the future.

If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee

For God so loved the world, their father would say, he gave his only begotten son. But what about his daughters, I wondered. What did God do with his daughters?

When you love a thing, little man, my dad said, you gotta love it with everything you got. Till you can't even tell where that thing you love begins and where you end.

For God so loved the world,' their father would say, 'he gave his only begotten son'. But what about his daughters, I wondered. What did God do with his daughters?

Laya! I'm going to give you my baby. You hear me?

I cannot respond to the call, the request, the obligation, or even the love of another, without sacrificing the other other, the other others

In the world everyone wants to be a 'wolf,' and no one is called to play the part of 'sheep.' Yet the world cannot live without this living witness of sacrifice. That is why it is essential that Christians should be very careful not to be 'wolves' in the spiritual sense - that is, people who try to dominate others. Christians must accept the domination of other people, and offer the daily sacrifice of their lives, which is united with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

Çünkü günah kanun olmadan yaÅŸayamaz. Bir zamanlar kanun yoktu ve ben hayattayd?m, ama sonra buyruk gelince günah dirildi ve ben öldüm. Ve gördüm ki hayat getirmesi gereken buyruk, ölüm getirdi. Çünkü buyruktan f?rsat bulan günah beni kand?rd?, ve böylece beni öldürdü. [Romans, 7:7-11]

La atracción por la utilidad es tan irresistible, que vemos personas dispuestas a todo por el placer de dar sus comodidades a quienes se les metió en la cabeza que no podrían vivir sin su auxilio.

Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you

I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you - the object petit a - I mutilate you.

umenie... myslí len na svoju slávu. nech je maliar zatratený, maliarstvo na to nedbá, ak sa na ohni, v ktorom maliar horí, upe?ie krásne chrámové okno

ja" sa prejavuje a zárove? obetuje, pretože je dávané, tiahnuté mimo seba v onej extáze, ktorou je tvorba, zomiera samé sebe, aby žilo v diele, vo ve?kej pokore, vydáva sa bez obrany!

You go down to the bottom of the sea, where the water isn't even blue anymore, where the sky is only a memory, and you float there, in the silence. And you stay there, and you decide, that you'll die for them. Only then do they start coming out. They come, and they greet you, and they judge the love you have for them. If it's sincere, if it's pure, they'll be with you, and take you away forever.

A vertical battled pitted the Italians against the Austrians, who were starving up in the mountains. The Italians also sent men to the firing squad "to set an example". I couldn't make up my mind which was more appalling: the mining war or the mountain war. And between an Italian general and a French one, I wouldn't've known which one to shoot first.

You were his protector, yet he betrayed you." James shrugged. "Odd thing is, I know if I asked, he'd die for me." She studied him for a moment. "But you'd never ask." "Nay. I never would." "You're a complicated man, James Sterling." She said softly.

Guarda tus ojos; ámame; guarda tu corazón; entiérrame en él

Burials in Cahokia could be astonishingly elaborate. In one, a man was buried on a bed of twenty thousand beads of shell. Nearby three people were buried at teh same time along with eight hundred arrowheads and a host of other objects. These were probably close relatives, sacrifieced at the death of the great man. Also nearby, more than fifty women between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three were interred, evidently strangled as part of a funeral ceremony.

On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.