Quotes About Sacrifice

I'm just borrowing him––I don't want him to leave his wife. I'm glad he's married. Let someone else take care of him. It's the way he smells––the way married men smell. I can smell when a happily married man comes into a room, and they can smell me too, I think. So can the wives––that's why he has to take a shower when he leaves me.

Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb.

What Batu thought Eric should say to Charley, if he really liked her: Come live with me. Come live at the All-Night. What Eric thought about saying to Charley: If you're going away, take me with you. I'm about to be twenty years old, and I've never been to college. I sleep days in a storage closet, wearing someone else's pajamas. I've worked retail jobs since I was sixteen. I know people are hateful. If you need to bite someone, you can bite me.

What you're doing is wrong," he said. "I mean evil. To give up happiness like this is like throwing jewels into the ocean. It's far worse than any sin.

Marvelous, isn't it, how these Germans can shoot back at us even when they're fucking dead.

Abraham was asked to sacrifice his only son. God no longer asks for blood sacrifices, for the ultimate sacrifice has been made. But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

I may yet go through anguish in hell for my sin. But if I had to live that time again I would do the same, to end Margery's ordeal. I preferred to suffer myself than to know that her agony continued. Her well-being was more important to me than my own. I have learned, during the course of a long life, that that is the meaning of love.

Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort that they could easily avoid, and the other half muttering meaningless mumbo jumbo in empty churches at all hours of the day and night. They deliberately shunned anything good—girls, sports, feasting and family life.

But everyone had to die, and Father had given his life for the sake of a better world. If more Germans had had his courage the Nazis would not have triumphed. She wanted to do all the things he had done: to raise her children well, to make a difference to her country's politics, to love and be loved. Most of all, when she died, she wanted her children to be able to say, as she said of her father, that her life had meant something, and that the world was a better place for it.

Dondequiera que tú vayas, iré yo, y dondequiera que vivas, viviré; tu pueblo será mi pueblo y tu Dios, mi Dios; donde tú mueras… —Se detuvo, incapaz de hablar por el nudo que le cerraba la garganta; después, tras un momento, tragó saliva y continuó—: Donde tú mueras, moriré yo, y allí seré enterrada».

Don't be a hero. Leave that to them that started the war—the upper classes, the Conservatives, the officers.

Renunciar a la felicidad es como arrojar piedras preciosas al océano. Es mucho peor que cualquier pecado.

Her well-being was more important to me than my own. I have learned, during the course of a long life, that that is the meaning of love.

they were bonded together by generosity in good times and solidarity in bad. This was what he would be fighting for, these people, this town. And if he had to give his life for them, it would be well spent.

How glibly he and Maud had said, back in August 1914, that they would be reunited by Christmas! It was now more than two years since he had looked at her lovely face. And it was probably going to take Germany another two years to win the war.

There were certain things one had to do before one could really call oneself a man, and fighting for king and country was among them. They

She opened her eyes again once, before she died, and said, "You'll have to win the war without me, kiddo.

Ces mots semblèrent la décider. Elle soupira. Tu me demandes, à moi qui ai des responsabilités importantes dans un couvent de quarante religieuses, dix novices et vingt-cinq serviteurs, avec une école, un hospice et une pharmacie, de tout quitter pour prendre soin d'une petite fille que je n'ai jamais vue?

take those young men in the springtime of their lives and march them in front of cannon to be shot to pieces or maimed for ever, no doubt for the very best reasons of international diplomacy.

God no longer asks for blood sacrifices, for the ultimate sacrifice has been made. But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us. Is this design the best thing you could offer God?

Allies had stood on the sidelines, fighting minor wars, joining in only for the last eleven months. All their casualties put together were only a fraction of those suffered by the Soviet people.

Behold, a man in anguish bending Marked by pain and loss Yonder stony hill ascending Carrying a cross

War is not a picnic," Mawhinney said angrily. "If we avoid war, we can carry on having picnics.

He might have to go hungry tonight, but he could put up with that, grateful that today God had asked him to sacrifice his dinner but not his life.