Quotes About Sacrifice

Es que todos los que han nacido para amar viven así como ella vivió?, ¿ahogando minuto a minuto lo más vital dentro de sí?

love or death? I'd chose death, it lasts forever

to become a saint one had to suffer much, seek out always the most perfect thing to do, and forget self.

in the smallest things as well as the greatest, God gives the hundredfold in this life to those souls who leave everything for love of Him.212

No doubt, these three privileges sum up my true vocation: Carmelite, Spouse, Mother, and yet I feel within me other vocations. I feel the vocation of the WARRIOR, [35]THE PRIEST, THE APOSTLE, THE DOCTOR, THE MARTYR. Finally, I feel the need and the desire of carrying out the most heroic deeds for You, O Jesus. I feel within my soul the courage of the Crusader, the Papal Guard, and I would want to die on the field of battle in defense of the Church.

My mortifications consisted in breaking my will, always so ready to impose itself on others, in holding back a reply, in rendering little services without any recognition, in not leaning my back against a support when seated, etc., etc. It was through the practice of these nothings that I [15]prepared myself to become the fiancée of Jesus,

precisely because my heart is capable of suffering I want it to give Jesus everything [15] possible.

Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of [5]wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it will bring forth much fruit.

Cuceririle amoroase sunt cele mai egoiste dintre cruciade.

The point is: no parent can live their child's life for them, but that doesn't keep us from the worry and heartache of seeing you unhappy. Sometimes that can even push us to action, to try and show you the way. Sometimes it's better to be wrong and tactless as a result of loving you too much than to sit idly by and watch you suffer.

C'es l'histoire d'un curé qui se prive de manger pour sauver un Arabe, d'un Arabe qui sauve un Juif en lui donnant encore de raison de croire, d'n Juif qui tient l'Arabe au creux de ses bras, tandis qu'il va mourir, en attendant son tour ; tu vois, c'est l'histoire du monde des hommes avec ses moments de merveilles insoupçonnées.

Toate visele au pretul lor

Men varför stannade du kvar hos honom när det fanns så många fel? - För att han stannade hos mig. För att jag hade lidit allt för mycket rent fysiskt för att orka med nya plågor också.

C'est lorsque l'on donne du peu que l'on a que l'on donne vraiment.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

run through by a spear-wielding St Edmund,

before being stabbed, strangled and cremated; men hanged with dogs and horses in sacred groves.

Bede consoled his readers that the two boys had gone gladly to their deaths, 'assured of their entry into the eternal kingdom'.

So long as they did it in praise of God, let them eat steak.

not least because he eventually died a martyr's death,

William Shakespeare: I have a wife, yes, and I cannot marry the daughter of Sir Robert De Lesseps. You needed no wife come from Stratford to tell you that, and yet, you let me come to your bed. Viola De Lesseps: Calf-love. I loved the writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet.

Traditionally, artists suffered for their art, now it's the audience.

Comme rien n'est plus précieux que le temps, il n'y a pas de plus grande générosité qu'à le perdre sans compter.

It is not simply to show power...that a man...throws coppers into the sea...In doing this he is also sacrificing to the gods and spirits...