Quotes About Sacrifice

A total of six thousand Cholultecans perished. Cortés ordered the few priests who survived to wash the floors and walls, to rid the temples of idols and in their place to install crosses and images of the Virgin Mary.

No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.

Every war is more or less a woman's war.

Dost though even know what would become of me?...Friends would disown me. It is our way. I would be alone! No, he said unexpectdly. He turned and held his hand to her, palm upward, empty, a simple masculine offering. Maddygirl. With... me .

Sometimes you have to destroy things, even people, in order to save them. (7)

No one in the world loved you quite the way a younger sibling did.

I know you aren't speaking to me for some reason, but I care about you so much that I'll come here where I know I'll get spit on and abused, and I'll sit on that cold floor just to be near you!

I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

A victim soul is a pious individual chosen to absorb the pain and suffering of others.

To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I'm not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

More than honor, more than life, I love thee. What do you say when a man whose entire existence had been his honor offers to give it up for you? You say the only thing you can. More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee, I said. more than any power in faerie, I love thee.

Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?

Because everything worth having hurts.

Maybe you're not willing to give up a lover who's colder than you are.

I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.

I'd made sure I knew his name. You shouldn't ask people to die for you if you don't at least know their name.

If you love someone your freedom is curtailed, if you love someone you give up much of your privacy, if you love someone you are not merely one person but half of a couple, to think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love.

because love can die from being withheld, like a flower that is so beautiful you hide it away from the sun trying to make it last longer; but every flower needs sun, and being in love requires risking yourself. It can require risking everything you are, not just in battle, but emotionally. Sometimes you have to risk it all to gain it all.

If you are following Deity's plan for you, it isn't always the easy path; sometimes it's the hard one. So why follow? Because to do any less is to betray your own abilities and gifts, and the faith that Deity has in you. Who would do that willingly?

Can you really rescue anyone, or anything, without rescuing a piece of yourself at the same time?