Quotes About Sacrifice

God's] love for us was displayed most clearly through the cross of Christ. There our Lord stretched out His bloodstained hands to say, "I love you this much!

Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.

Jesus came to give us life. We don't have to hang on a cross like he did. For him, it was a sacrifice. For us, it is a gift.

To follow Christ requires a downward career track that does not depend on dollars or status. Instead, what matters is Christ.

Those who wish to stand tallest must kneel lowest.

Jesus cares more about our effort than our accomplishments.

Christianity is anything but safe. Jesus made clear that trouble and persecution stood in the future for His followers.

I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two things just do not work out together when one has to leave home at 5.30 am in the morning to go to the studio.

S'illude, Drogo, di una grandiosa rivincita a lunga scadenza, crede di avere ancora un'immensità di tempo disponibile, rinuncia così alla minuta lotta per la vita quotidiana.

in Italia, dove si raggiungono capolavori di sagacia per eludere le leggi che impongono il più piccolo sacrificio o costrizione, stiamo pur certi che le norme attinenti al riposo e simili verranno rispettate senza eccezione con scrupolo prussiano.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

This is the way of the mystic as distinguished from that of the occultist; it is swift and direct, and free from the danger of the temptation of unbalanced force that is met with in either pillar, but it confers no magical powers save those of sacrifice in Tiphareth and psychism in Yesod.

No one can sacrifice for another. We each sacrifice ourselves, and thereby gain the power to give magical help to each other.

Oh, for God's sweet sake, couldn't you stand not learning your lesson? Because the lesson we learn is always by giving death and a sword to our lover.

Quando regaliamo una bambola a una bambina, le regaliamo la morte - è l'effige e il sudario; quando una donna la regala a una donna, è la vita che esse non possono avere, è la loro figlia, sacra e profana.»

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

Shvataš li šta je to po?i u rat? Ako se i vratim, ne?u biti onaj koji je otišao. Ja se, Natalija, ne bojim smrti, bojim se rata. Užasno se bojim rata.

Ni?emu život ne sme da bude cena. Apsolutno ni?emu.

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

Our fervent hope is that the spirits of those brave defenders have at last found their eternal peace.

She talked about working around the clock and barely having time to eat, about sweating blood trying to make enough money to pay the band, the production staff, the promoters, the organizers, and the concert spaces, "not to mention forking out a regular four figures on your spangly outfits." "It's not a normal way to live," Ruthanna had said. Tell me more, was all AnnieLee could think.

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.

Per ore, accoccolati sui talloni, a occhi semichiusi, quegli esclusi dalla felicità barattavano la dura realtà con qualche grammo di sogno.

Crucifícalo, crucifícalo.