Quotes About Sacrifice

Não se pode comer um bolo sem o perder.

To possess is to be possessed, and therefore to lose oneself.

El amor más grande es, por tanto, la muerte o el olvido, o la renuncia, todos los amores que son otros tantos absurdiandos del amor.

que pesa duramente na alma: é a estupidez que sacrifica vidas e haveres a qualquer coisa inevitavelmente inútil.

Una cosa es el heroísmo y otra cosa el suicidio por inanición

An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea' – TURKISH PROVERB

Si esto es verdad, debió de sentir que había perdido su antiguo mundo, su calor, y que había pagado un alto precio por vivir demasiado tiempo con un solo sueño.

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew she would never be a saint.... but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery: that it has for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.

She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint...

There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not.

Jesus thrown everything off balance.

Jesus died to redeem you, she said. I never ast him, he muttered.

A faith that just accepts is a child's faith and all right for children, but eventually you have to grow religiously as every other way, though some never do. What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. ... remember that these things are mysteries and that if they were such that we could understand them, they wouldn't be worth understanding. A God you understood would be less than yourself.

Julian thought he could have stood his lot better if she had been selfish, if she had been an old hag who drank and screamed at him. He walked along, saturated in depression, as if in the midst of his martyrdom he had lost his faith.

What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

She was seeing that her father spent his last years with his own family and not in a decayed boarding house full of old women whose heads jiggled. She was doing her duty. She had brothers and sisters who were not.

Jesus died to redeem you," she said. "I never ast him," he muttered.

She lifted the hat one more time and set it down slowly on top of her head. Two wings of gray hair protruded on either side of her florid face, but her eyes, sky-blue, were as innocent and untouched by experience as they must have been when she was ten. Were it not that she was a widow who had struggled fiercely to feed and clothe and put him through school and who was supporting him still, "until he got on his feet," she might have been a little girl that he had to take to town.

In the cross of Christ, we see something revolutionary, something that undercuts not just conventional morality but also religious distinctions across the board. Christ has died for the ungodly, the unrighteous

To summarize, then: the crucifixion is the touchstone of Christian authenticity, the unique feature by which everything else, including the resurrection, is given its true significance.