Quotes About Sacrifice

A quién de los dos quieren que les suelte? respondieron ellos: A Barrabás. 22 Les replicó Pilato: Pues ¿qué he de hacer de Jesús, llamado el Cristo? 23 Dicen todos: Sea crucificado. Y el presidente: Pero ¿qué mal ha hecho? Mas ellos comenzaron a gritar más, diciendo: Sea crucificado. 24

16 Que amó tanto Dios al mundo, que no paró hasta dar a su Hijo unigénito, a fin de que todos los que creen en él, no perezcan, sino que vivan vida eterna.

14 Yo soy el buen Pastor: y conozco mis ovejas, y las ovejas mías me conocen a mí. 15 Así como el Padre me conoce a mí, así yo conozco al Padre: y doy mi vida por mis ovejas. 16 Tengo también otras ovejas,

61 Y otro le dijo: Yo te seguiré, Señor, pero primero déjame ir a despedirme de mi casa. 62 Le respondió Jesús: Ninguno que después de haber puesto su mano en el arado y vuelve los ojos atrás, es apto para el reino de Dios. 10

12 El precepto mío es que se amen unos a otros, como yo los he amado a ustedes. 13 Que nadie tiene amor más grande, que el que da su vida por sus amigos. 14 Ustedes son mis amigos, si hacen lo que yo les mando. 15 Ya no los llamaré siervos: pues el siervo no es sabedor de lo que hace su amo. Mas a ustedes los he llamado amigos: porque les he hecho y haré saber cuantas cosas oí de mi Padre.

26 Habiendo mirado pues Jesús a su madre, y al discípulo que él amaba, el cual estaba allí, dice a su madre: Mujer, ahí tienes a tu hijo. 27 Después dice al discípulo: Ahí tienes a tu madre. Y desde aquel punto se encargó de ella el discípulo, y la tuvo consigo en su casa. 28

51 Yo soy el pan vivo, que he descendido del cielo. 52 Quien comiere de este pan, vivirá eternamente: y el pan que yo daré, es mi misma carne, la cual daré yo para la vida del mundo. 53

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

For Henri Jayer of Vosne-Romanée in Burgundy, it meant trading his wine for food so his family would have enough to eat. For Prince Philippe Poniatowski of Vouvray, it meant burying his best wines in his yard so that he would have something to restart business with after the war.

You're not going to be able to save her, you know. If you keep trying, she'll break your heart.

You need to be willing to live on the street to be an artist. Getting sucked into a career is an invitation to bail. It makes it too easy to give up. It makes it almost inevitable that you will.

From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

the real purpose in living was in giving every part of his life to Christ.

None of the hymns that filled the air were about Jesus' sacrifice or death. I heard no sad songs and instinctively knew that there are no sad songs in heaven.

The bush is a home for martyrs.

In his mind's eye, though, he sees— —Taliban moving like scorpions across a similar landscape his own caravan blown to shit blood streaming from buddies Now I'm one of them He sights in again. No time for Lack of PTSD He only hopes that Gentle Ben Increase-the-Peace Ben is one of them, too, now. Now, Ben. Find your inner Taliban.

Tell me you don't want to do those women on Fox News," Jimena says. "Tell me you don't," Giorgio counters. "Anyway, of course I do. I want to convert them through the subversive power of the orgasm." "So it would be a political act," Jimena says. "I am willing to sacrifice myself for the cause," Giorgio answers.

Deliver my soul from the sword; my love from the power of the dog. Psalms 22:20

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees.

Then know," Caro said, "that you have to accept both sides of this thing. Enjoy the rewards, accept the losses, do the terrible things you sometimes have to do. Never shed blood you don't have to, but when you have to, harden your heart and do it.

The nuns used to say that the devil comes disguised as an angel. That the worst things you'll do, you'll do for the best reasons. The most hateful things you'll do, you'll do for the ones you love most.

Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.

Truly spiritual people live not unto themselves, not for their own glory and happiness, but for the glory of God alone (soli Deogloria).