Quotes About Sacrifice

It had been a five-year exercise in self-immolation.

You should bury more than the dead. You should try harder. You should give up.

As a matter of fact, the idea of death seeped into our blood. We would die, anyway, whatever happened. We would be gassed, we would be burned, we would be hanged, or we would be shot. The members of the underground at least knew that if they died, they would die fighting for something.

When the employees of "Canada" or of the "Bekleidungskammer" stole warm clothing for their ragged comrades, that was not common theft; it was an act of social solidarity.

Many times Annushka had tried to barter with anyone she could, with God, with the Virgin, with Saint Parascheva, with the whole iconostasis, even with the closer, vaguer realm of fate.

The Messiah has to fall as low as possible, otherwise he isn't the Messiah.

To proste - my?la? Mieczy? Wojnicz, ?ykaj?c ?zy, które miesza?y si? z krwi? zwierz?cia w jego w?t?ym ciele - by? m??czyzn? to nauczy? si? ignorowa? to, co sprawia k?opot. Oto ca?a tajemnica.

But always there was that dark thought -- Vietnam

War meant a perpetual postponement of life, yet one did not cease to grow old.

In the midst of the fire he stood, not like burning flesh, but like bread baking. Martyrdom of St Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna,

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, Offer themselves a burning sacrifice.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

I want to know what your life is dedicated to. What do you love more than your own happiness or your own pain?

I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

Basta volere un figlio per costringerlo alla vita? Ed è giusto sacrificare una vita già fatta a una vita che ancora non è?

Love isn't putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he's chosen.

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.

It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure.

The more you free your heart from sin, the more your heart is free to serve.

Success never goes on sale, but most spend their whole life dickering over the cost, never making the purchase.

Old: Give me liberty or give me death. - New: Give me liberty or give me debt.