Quotes About Sacrifice

Freedom of the heart has a price, Aleksandr", Father Serafim continued in an unhurried tone. "To face the darkness within oneself is part of it.

You are the heart of the world. I place my trust in You." Cling to Me in everything that is about to happen. You will bear many more wounds for My sake. "You are my life." You are My friend and disciple. Elijah.

Obedience is the best form of poverty, Billy. I think that is the kind of martyrdom you have been given.

and arrogant, to tell people it is fine to poison themselves with chemicals and mutilate their bodies at the very sources of life, just so they can escape children! As if children could ever—ever—be a burden!

of becoming a desert dweller. Like Serafim, I had suffered on the cross with Christ, but unlike him, I had not yet given everything. You see, Aleksandr, in each heart three trees grow. Life cuts them down, trims them, crafts them into crosses. Then they are lifted high on a hill—a hill like a skull. One is the cross of Jesus, the second the cross of the repentant thief, and the third the cross of the unrepentant thief.

We wish to be worthy of being saved", Father Andrei continued. "Which is another way of saying that we, every one of us, whether we know it or not, wish to be our own god, that is, to save ourselves. We want paradise without his Cross, forgetting that the Cross is the only way to reenter the original harmony we lost in the Fall of Man. This is the narrow gate.

for instinctively he knew that any abiding love would have a cost.

Oh, how beautiful is the heart of Jesus! How beautiful that he loves us in our foolishness, he who suffered so much for us. Now our poor world grows indifferent to what he gave, though not all. We still find many who are not blind.

Not so, Tarek. The highest love is given without thought of cost or reward—anything less is not love.

Remember that obedience is the great fast.

If we are going to love, we will be able to love someone else even if we never get what we want.

La política requiere sacrificio. El sacrificio de los demás, por supuesto.

Strategy is making trade-offs in competing. The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

DIVIDE YOUR LIFE INTO SACRED AND SECULAR, HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY, CHRISTIAN AND HUMAN REALMS. DEVOTE THEM ALL TO CHRIST.

James Potter

Death Eaters

This analogy can also be found in Jon Pahl, Empire of Sacrifice (New York: New York University Press, 2010), 20. [19]

How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?

He told KG that if he didn't win as a Celtic, he'd give Garnett one of his rings.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

He observed poetically that a mother goldfinch, seeing her children caged, feeds them a bit of a poisonous plant,noting, "Better death than to be without freedom.

Faith, for Paul, is a death experience, a death that creates life.

For Paul, the will of God is known in essence in the obedient death of Jesus. In concrete and specific ways, however, God's will is known only when one offers oneself and one's body daily as a living sacrifice to one's rightful Lord:

faith is an inauguration into a community and into a life of dying, or cruciformity.