Quotes About Sacrifice

Milt Copulos, a friend of Jim Webb, spent three and a half years in the hospital and received the last rites seven times as a result of his Vietnam service. He put it this way: "There's a wall ten miles high and fifty miles thick between those of us who went and those who didn't, and that wall is never going to come down.

It was the tradition to sacrifice to the Uenius publicus on 9 October, at the same time as to Fausta Felicitas and 'Victorious' Venus, two deities who had a vital and historic link with Rome.

The Aurelii, or Sabine origin like the Claudii, had charge of the cult of the Sun, to whom they owed their name (Ausel which harked back in fact to the Etruscan Usil) and to whom the family sacrificed in the name of the Roman people

Expert in examining entrails of sacrificed animals, but also in interpreting prodigies and lightning, the haruspices were for a long time the custodians of an Etruscan science resorted to only in exceptional circumstances. They formed an official college of sixty members only from the time of the emperor Claudius (41-54), who was, as we know, passionately interested in Etruscology.

The flaminica, a devotee of the cult of Juno, never went out unless wearing a long garment of purple wool. A veil similar to the flammeum of a young bride shrouded her hair, which was braided and dressed high to form a (conical?) tutulus. Her shoes were made from the leather of sacrificed animals.

With the ashes of calf embryos burnt at the Fordicidia, horse blood and bean stalks, they also concocted the mixture for the purifying fumigations (suffimina).

Tada yori takai mono wa nai [Nothing is more costly than something given free of charge]. -Popular Japanese saying

He remembered the often-unsung words: Day is done. Gone the sun From the lake From the hill From the sky. Rest in peace Soldier brave God is nigh. . . .

All that is fair shall pass away; all that I love, all that I fear for—these shall the doctor take away, lifting them from my memory on the point of a steel blade. What has he to give in return? A hell of vapour, distorting sight; a hell of sound, drowning the soul.

People who are self-denying and selfless have little to offer to others.

it is easier to deal with the devil you know, the price of avoiding primal separation and death anxiety is a partial suicide resolution in which one gives up on life. Peace is purchased at the cost of avoiding spontaneous feelings and encouraging a process of emotional anaesthesia—a trade-off in which primal anxieties are ameliorated by sacrificing the zest for life.

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

the Christian life consists of one sacrifice after another. When you view those situations as opportunities, not problems, you'll understand what it means to take up your cross and follow the Lord.

No tendremos nunca contacto sexual. Para hacer más duradero nuestro amor, refrenaremos el deseo, y tampoco la besaré en la boca, sino en la mano.

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better. But better can sometimes mean worse, if you're a woman

Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.

We had contributed. So had his mother and all the other black mothers who wept at night and saw visions of the gates of hell when they should have been asleep.

A woman who took care of everyone, except herself, and she begins to fade away in our arms. And even then we don't realize

They turned chaos into order, even if it was at the cost of what is commonly known as sanity.

Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are the minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.

To me, her smile is still the terminal smile of that other Mexico, a place sometimes revealed between the folds of a random dawn: part rabid will to live, part sacrifice stone.

Yo era la que veía el pasado y las que ven el pasado nunca pagan. También veía el futuro y ésas sí que pagan un precio elevado, en ocasiones el precio es la vida o la cordura.

Y?jñavalkya immediately separated out the two essential points in every sacrificial act: substitution and the transposition from the visible to the realm of the mind.

Then the gods realized they must create substitutes for themselves: men. But how? For them to be truly alive, a god must die.