Quotes About Sacrifice

The simple choice to pray usually happens to the exclusion of something else in our lives. Often that something else is frivolous, but at times prayer must come at the expense of important things, such as our own work, our sleep or our time with loved ones.

In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

Don't get me wrong, Mallory. She's a good person. She has a big heart. And she would do anything for Teddy's well-being. But this is not the life I wanted. I never signed on for any of this.

I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

I was about to tell her that Miralles hadn't fought in one war, but many, but I couldn't, because I suddenly saw Miralles walking across the Libyan desert towards the Murzuk oasis- young, ragged, dusty and annonymous, carrying the tricolour flag of a country not his own, of a country that is all countries and also the country of liberty and which only exists because he and four Moors and a black guy are raising that flag as they keep walking onwards, onwards, ever onwards.

Kahramanlar, ancak öldüklerinde ya da öldürüldüklerinde kahraman olurlar. Gerçek kahramanlar savaÅŸta doÄŸarlar, savaÅŸta ölürler. YaÅŸayan kahraman yoktur, delikanl?. Bütün kahramanlar ölüdür.

No hay que prestar más dinero del que uno estaría dispuesto a regalarle a quien le asesta el sablazo.

Una pareja, pensé, que depende y vive de sus obstáculos: una pareja que se deshará cuando ya no los haya, si es que no la deshacen antes esos mismos obstáculos tan fatigosos y prolongados, que sin embargo tendrán que alimentar y cuidar y procurar hacer eternos, si ya les ha alcanzado el momento de no poder pasarse sin ti y sin mí, o sin el uno el otro.

Set your mind fully on the hope you have in Christ, and be ready to pay any price, challenge any foe, and confront any lie for the sake of the gospel.

We build loyalty not by giving out job descriptions and offices, but by giving ourselves.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed — those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending its money alone — it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

The truth is, the Hero of heaven who went to the cross for you and me loves us too deeply to leave us unwarned.

the desire to sacrifice oneself for love is so otherworldly that it must have come from another world. It is so alien to the tooth and claw of natural selection that it must be the result of a supernatural selection.

Just as certainly as the false gods of paganism demanded the bloody sacrifice of children, so the idolatrous ideologies demand blood. Push any ideology far enough and you will find violence, murder, mayhem, and genocide. This is because idealogues live for an idea—they do not live for life—and any ideology that does not put life first will invariably put it last.

If she hated me that much, why hadn't she given me up? Or was giving up a child an act of love?

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.

King Christ,this world is all aleak; and lifepreservers there are none: and waves which only He may walk Who dared to call Himself a man.

If you really want to be a witch, nothing you have to do will seem like too much. If you don't really want to be a witch, everything will seem like too much.

Deny thy self!