Quotes About Sacrifice

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.

I hope that I would put whatever my political beliefs aside, and realize that my country's asked me to to something, and do it.

To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.

Salvation never will come through hope of reward.

All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

Christ's humanity occasions our divinity

India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.

She comes back Through blood by blood She returns Cut deep now Like me Humanity saves her Will she save me?

The moment you betray your heart is the moment you lose everything.

Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children's lives in order to settle its differences.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Who do you think was smarter, Jesus or Buddha? I mean, just in terms of not letting themselves get crucified.

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

I think one of the dangers of humor is becoming seduced by it and sacrificing the story for a few laughs.

I'm not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

Of course I believe in hell. I have three brothers.