Quotes About Sacrifice

You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.

Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.

You'd break your heart to make it bigger, so why not crack your skull when the mind swells.

I take off my hands and I give them to you but you don't want them, so I take them back and put them on the wrong way, the wrong wrists.

I cut off my head and threw it in the sky. It turned into birds. I called it thinking.

and you play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.

Lie down on the bed, you're all I ever wanted and worth dying for too... but I think I'd rather keep the bullet.

Love, for you is larger than the usual romantic love. It's like a religion. It's terrifying.

I cut off my head and threw it in the sky.

I take off my hands and I give them to you but you don't want them, so I take them back and put them on the wrong way, the wrong wrists.

You said I could have anything I wanted, but I just couldn't say it out loud. Actually, you said Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It's like a religion. It's terrifying. No one will ever want to sleep with you.

I'll give you my heart to make a place for it to happen, evidence of a love that transcends hunger. Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there?

Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.

You do this, you do. You take the things you love and tear them apart or you pin them down with your body and pretend they're yours.

The man on top of you is teaching you how to hate, sees you as a piece of real estate, just another fallow field lying underneath him like a sacrifice.

you're all I ever wanted / and worth dying for too

Rule 6. Dedicate Your Life to Something

Rather than focusing narrowly on the dangers of peer pressure, adults should ask themselves whether they are helping children find causes and commitments that are larger than the self that are worth sacrificing for.

If the king had given me for my own Paris, his citadel, And I for that must leave alone Her whom I love so well, I'd say then to the Crown Take back your glittering town My darling is more fair, I swear. My darling is more fair.

Then the tempest cleared away, and the blue sky appeared once more. Giauna had regained consciousness, and when she saw Kung lying dead beside her she said amid sobs: "He died for my sake! Why should I continue to live?" A-Sung also came out, and together they carried him into the cave. Giauna told A-Sung to hold his head while her brother opened his mouth. She herself took hold of his chin, and brought out her little red pellet. She pressed it against his lips with

But dear people, I tell you a truth.  No revival will come if we are not willing to be obedient to the Lord's call to go and make disciples and invest ourselves in the cause of Christ and make our living sacrifice to serve his will and not our own.

We are too willing to reap death to save a hypothetical life.

Solomon's Song belongs to those who have made the greatest renunciation of all: the renunciation of self. For them, only the Beloved counts.

For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain" (Philippians 1:21). "Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul" (Matthew 10:28).