Quotes About Sacrifice

I've thought far more about marriage in recent months than I ever did before. What is the marriage contract? The general assumption we have about marriage is that it involves two people building a life together. But what I wonder is this: Does it require each person to give up the life they built before? Must we shed our former selves? Do we have to give up that which was once important to us as a sacrifice to the gods of marriage?

Am I really dead in Christ? Colossians 3:3. Is my new life gonna be terrible? John 10:10. What if I want my old life back? Matthew 16:25.

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

Don't bargain and negotiate for everything in life. It may help build businesses but it may not work while building relationships. Give freely in relationships don't scrutinize, let go with love and simply MickeyMize.

Don't make sacrifices in life, instead turn them into offerings of love. Sacrifice is painful and offerings are pleasurable, just change your perspective, feelings, motive and not your action. Your offerings will sky -rise, this world will be nurtured to MickeyMize.

Most people suffer in life because they ruin and sacrifice a certain beautiful today, for a hope of an uncertain glorious tomorrow. If today you destroy a potential seed, how will it flower tomorrow sow and nurture all the seeds today and MickeyMize your life! Share this with as many for a fragrant world.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"?

Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"?

"Your money, or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

We can only imagine the repercussions if, today, someone took one of their children and attempted to offer him or her as a sacrifice to please God, professing that God had told them to do it. No doubt such a person would be arrested and placed under psychiatric care, as they should be. But the Abraham story has become so familiar that we fail to read its disturbing dark side.

La imagen de la Virgen se borró en la sombra y por el suelo rodaron dos cuerpos hechos una trenza de ajos.

A soplidos le sacaba la fondera los ojos al fuego, sin dejar de repetir entre dientes: «Fuego y luego, luego y fuego». A

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

Cásate con la mujer que te quiera, aunque no la quieras tú. Es mejor casarte para que le conquisten a uno el amor que para conquistarlo.

El hombre es un fin, no un medio. La civilización toda se endereza al hombre, a cada hombre, a cada yo. ¿O qué es ese ídolo, llámese Humanidad o como se llamare, a que se han de sacrificar todos y cada uno de los hombres? Porque

L'amore, con il solo amare, e senza operare null'altro, compie un'eroica fatica.