Quotes About Sacrifice

If she breaks my heart, no matter what hell she puts me through, I can say it was worth it, just because of right now.

I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you

He touched my little brother—I stopped his heart. It was a fair trade.

All of his life had been about making sure I kept mine.

Nice Guys are wimps. This may not sound like a nice thing to say, but it's true. Nice Guys tend to be wimpy victims because their life paradigm and childhood survival mechanisms require them to sacrifice their personal power.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.

You must have noticed it is always too late when questions are answered and hopes fulfilled and sacrifices made and murder done. Because it is always later than you think.

But in the real, messy world of creativity, giving away the thing you don't really understand for the thing that you do is an inevitable tradeoff.

Abraham's willingness to plunge a dagger through the heart of his young son because God, without any explanation, ordered it. We learn in this story that the correctness of an action was not judged by such considerations as apparent senselessness, harmfulness, injustice, or usual moral standards, but by the mere command of a higher authority.

When it comes to freedoms, it is more dangerous to have given for a while than never to have given at all.

They will commit to reversing the vicious cycle even if that means living less comfortably.

But the true emperor, Luke insists, is not the one who feeds himself but who is willing to offer his life as food for the other. At the climax of his life, this child, come of age, would say to his friends, "This is my body, which will be given for you' do this in memory of me" (Lk 22:19).

Take this, all of you, and drink from it: this is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant. It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven. Do this in memory of me.

The paradox of worship is this: we perform these acts of worship, but they are not actually for us. We do these things for God, and then we are the ones who are changed.

My master Thomas More would give anything to anyone. Some say that's good and some say that's bad, but I say he can't help it and that's bad... because some day someone's going to ask him for something that he wants to keep; and he'll be out of practice.

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.

What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.

Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream.