Quotes About Sacrifice

The one thing he did die a martyr to was his own conscience. He wanted to do the right thing because it was his idea of the thing to do, and for that—and that alone—he died. This is the satisfaction which you and I will always have.

If my boyfriend offered me up for a voodoo ritual sacrifice, I'd have some serious questions about the future of the relationship.

There's a saying, cited in popular song, that if you love someone you must set them free. Well, that's just nonsense. If you love someone, you bind them to you with heavy metal chains.

that if you love someone you must set them free. Well, that's just nonsense. If you love someone, you bind them to you with heavy metal chains.

the memorial stained-glass window dedicated to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, on whose side God had been in two world wars, though this hadn't prevented them suffering heavy casualties.

The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.

In the best establishments, promises are always kept, whatever it may cost in agony and overtime.

My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.

O Jesus, keep me under the standard of Your cross. Let me not just look at You crucified, but have You living in my heart. Amen. —BERNADETTE OF LOURDES (1844

It is truly right and good, always and everywhere, with our whole heart and mind and voice, to praise You, the invisible, almighty, and eternal God, and Your only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord; for He is the true Paschal Lamb, who at the feast of the Passover paid for us the debt of Adam's sin, and by His blood delivered Your faithful people. . . .

Jesus according to Jesus

That's the prayer God loves to answer. Have you ever prayed, "Lord, give me more money so I can give more money to someone else"? "For your work"? This is how Jesus prays: "Give this to me and then I can give more to you. Give me more time and I'll give more time to you. Give me more energy and I'll have more energy to give to you." Jesus was right to pray, "Give glory to me,

It is a war of nerves and there will be casualties.

All three philistines took their perfect coffee and had it sacrificed on the altar of cream and sugar. I didn't say anything but inside I was dying as I ordered the café abominations and smiling I handed them out as the intelligent kitchen delivered them up. I didn't even make one for myself planning to drink one after they left so the taint of their heresy had no chance of affecting my pure caffeinated potion of greatness.

For fourteen years, Martin Luther King, Jr. lived in the valley of the shadow of death. He was stoned. He was stabbed. His home was bombed. He did important work despite the knowledge that people plotted his death. He sacrificed his safety, not his life. Stop saying that he gave his life, offered himself as a sacrifice. That is a lie. He was murdered.

His report described a typical beka initiation, complete with slaughtered sheep and chickens, the neck of a tortoise (because it resembles a penis), and "virgin lasses" in attendance through a long prelude that culminates at four in the morning.

Uncomfortable with our sense-of-lack today, we look forward to that day in the future when we will feel truly alive; we use that hope to rationalize the way we have to live now, a sacrifice which then increases our demands of the future.

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in war.

Now, Yahweh did so: powerful droves of flies entered Pharaoh's palace, his officers' houses; through all the land of Egypt land was ruined under the flies. Now, Pharaoh called for Moses: "Go sacrifice to your god, but in our country—

a few must die so the rest can live in peace, well, such is the ugly but unavoidable cost of living in a civilized society. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.

even a pawn must not be sacrificed to no purpose.

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God, but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin but for God's wrath on it.

I felt like I was only just beginning to make a useful contribution. In persuing my education and my career, I had made many sacrifices, invested a lot in the future. And suddenly I was facing the possibility that there would be no future at all.

But here's the rub of addiction. By its nature, people afflicted are unable to do what, from the outside, appears to be a simple solution—don't drink. Don't use drugs. In exchange for that one small sacrifice, you will be given a gift that other terminally ill people would give anything for: life.