Quotes About Sacrifice

He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly

Three days (so I hear) she is without food, keeps her body pure of bread, longs to run herself aground in a sad secret death. Is it a god inside you, girl?

H of H: I cannot rise. Too heavy with filth and sin. Th: Give me your hand. H of H: I'll stain you. Th: I'll take it.

Love does not happen without loss of vital self. The lover is the loser. Or so he reckons. But his reckoning involves a

Hegel on sacrifice. The animal dies. The man becomes alert.

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

I shall wash blood with blood to get rid of the defilement—

What is a Lamb of God? People use this phrase. I don't know. I watch my sister, fingers straying absently about her mustache, no help there.

aH of H: I cannot rise. Too heavy with filth and sin. Th: Give me your hand. H of H: I'll stain you. Th: I'll take it.

He had already prepared himself for martyrdom, and the last thing he desired was to be offered an alternative

Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find-- blood, nails, a bit of anguish.

And he did. Billy knew that, even if he did not love Greg, even if he had other guys, and other plans for the long term, he would still do this thing. He would help Greg in his last months, or years. And he might resent it but he would not regret it: because this was the thing that was given him to do.

Like every Russian city, Chelyabinsk has an impressive monument to those who died during World War II.

I would give my life for this country, but this country would do nothing for my wife and child had I died.

women who saved their families because men were less ready to bury their pride and do whatever job

God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ROMANS 5:8

Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you truly love me more than these?" "Yes, Lord," he said, "you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my lambs." JOHN 21:15

Jesus] came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?" JOHN 13:6

Yet it was the LORD'S will to crush him and cause him to suffer.13

Jesus, the Son of God, "did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. PSALM 51:17

I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. JOHN 12:24

At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. Answer me, O LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again." Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice. 1 KINGS 18:36 – 38

Love is a choice — a decision we make to put the well-being of the other person before our own. And forgiveness is also a decision.