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Quotes About Sacrifice

Now, you have to choose between two roads." Thin-Face looked straight into my eyes. "You can break with your family and follow Chairman Mao, or you can follow your father and become an enemy of the people." His
~ Ji-li Jiang
I realized that I hdd my promise to them - to everyone in my family - long ago. I had promised during the days that Grandma and I had hidden in the park; I had promised when I had not testified against Dad; I had promised when I had hidden the letter. I would never do anything to hurt my family and I would do everything I could to take care of them.
~ Ji-li Jiang
As soon as I said it, I realized that I had made my promise to them—to everyone in my family—long ago. I had promised during the days that Grandma and I had hidden in the park; I had promised when I had not testified against Dad; I had promised when I had hidden the letter. I would never do anything to hurt my family, and I would do everything I could to take care of them. My family was too precious to forget, and too rare to replace.
~ Ji-li Jiang
What was she thinking before she jumped? She must have forgotten about her duties to her country, and her family too. Did she think about her granddaughter rushing back from Shandong for the funeral? Did she remember her blind sister? I
~ Ji-li Jiang
We were proud of our precious red scarves, which, like the national flag, were dyed red with the blood of our revolutionary martyrs. We
~ Ji-li Jiang
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be." EINSTEIN
~ Jill Bolte Taylor, PhD
Becoming A Mother: I'm so sorry it was my life you landed in. This is it. This is who you got. I'll do my best.
~ Jill Dawson
Theodore Roosevelt declared in 1908, "because when all is said and done it is the mother, and the mother only, who is a better citizen even than the soldier who fights for his country.
~ Jill Lepore
This enchanted crown that you so coveted shall be upon your brow like a crown of thorns... ... for you will not be able to remove it until you have made up for the ills you have caused. And until that day, you shall never again set foot on the golden shores of Themyscira.
~ Jill Thompson
Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.
~ Jillian Michaels
It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.
~ Jillian Michaels
Our Lord did not come to this planet, live a perfect life, and become a worthy atonement for the sins of the world so that those who become His children can merely be well adjusted, live morally upright lives, and enjoy personal happiness and success. He died to redeem us from the penalty and power of a sinful heart that keeps us from being useful servants of the living God.
~ Jim Berg
Prometheus had stolen fire from the gods and suffered the consequences. I had returned the gift of the gods, and the price had been my dreams.
~ Jim C. Hines
Those forced to make impossible choices are rarely loved. If it's approval and reputation you care about, then you have no place here.
~ Jim C. Hines
I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.
~ Jim Carroll
For this pitiful kill leopard would have to pay with his life
~ Jim Corbett
Dios nos llama amorosamente a la obediencia. Él nunca se da por vencido. El hecho de su santidad no puede verse comprometido. Cuando lo desobedecemos, nos lastimamos a nosotros mismos y rompemos la comunicación con él. Solo cuando esta se restaura podemos concretar sus bendiciones en nuestros esfuerzos. 3.
~ Jim Cymbala
But how can we effectively represent Christ, who in sacrificial love gave his life for others, if we don't deeply care about those he died for? And since "God is love" (1 John 4:8), doesn't it follow that the one great distinguishing characteristic of Christians everywhere should be a self-sacrificing love for people? Doctrine, apologetics, spiritual gifts, and prophecy charts are all great, but God is love. Without love, everything becomes meaningless (1 Cor. 13).
~ Jim Cymbala
Whatever God approves of comes first. Whatever grieves him has to go.
~ Jim Cymbala
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
~ Jim DeMint
Ölümü kaç?racak ve kar??l???nda fidye olarak zaman isteyecekti." Çev. Ay?e Ünal
~ Jim Dodge
The Fourth Wiseman delivered his gift and slipped away.
~ Jim Dodge
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
~ Jim Elliot
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
~ Jim Elliot