Quotes About Sacrifice

When you love someone completely, you'll do anything to protect them, even if you sacrifice your soul. Because if you don't, you destroy your soul anyway.

I'll endure anything for you, angel. Anything.

She inhaled sharply as he traced the line of her neck with the warm wetness. "I'm not afraid to bleed for you, Marguerite." His voice was a rough whisper against her ear. "I'll tell The Zone you're thinking it over. Don't disappoint me. Or yourself.

There you are," he murmured. "The girl I met in that club. As far as my heart goes, you have it, sweetheart. God's going to have to fight you for it.

God, he was going to destroy her. But maybe for the first time in her life, she'd found a man worth shattering for.

God's assumption of humanity.

what we are sacrificing is depth in all sorts of dimensions…. Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection.

What we are sacrificing is depth in all sorts of dimensions … Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection. If you have to keep up with everything and send emails all the time, there's no time to reach depth. Depth connected to your work in relationships also takes time. It takes energy. It takes long timespans. And it takes commitment. It takes attention, right? All of these things that require depth are suffering. It's pulling us more and more up onto the surface.

Ele estava ali — foram se aglomerando em volta dele —, e um disse: "Então você se tornou mais um pintor! Teria sido bem melhor se ficasse remendando nossos sapatos". Ele respondeu-lhes: "Eu os teria remendado, teria carregado pedras por vocês, por vocês teria ido buscar água — teria morrido por vocês —, mas vocês não me quiseram e no vácuo forçado de minha existência espezinhada não me restou nada senão aprender a pintar".

Love can do much, but duty more.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

Weary of liberty, he suffered himself to be saddled and bridled, and was ridden to death for his pains.

Entbehren sollst du - sollst entbehren. Thou shalt forego, shalt do without.

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother's elder brother.

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus.

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

The only joy in this hard life is serving others.

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

I believe how I live my life every day is my act of worship.

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!