Quotes About Sacrifice

Surely Calvary represents a fearful price. But your soul and mine, and the millions thus far redeemed and other millions which may yet be redeemed, a wrecked earth restored back to Eden perfection, the kingdoms of this world wrested from the grasp of the usurper and delivered over to the reign of their rightful King!—when we shall see all this shall we not gladly say, "Behold the purchase?

A força explosiva da mais pequena mortificação. Todo o desejo vencido nos torna poderosos. Quanto mais nos afastamos dele, e a ele deixamos de aderir, melhor dominamos este mundo. A renúncia confere um poder infinito.

Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.

The second dream is more difficult to convey. Nothing happened. He scarcely saw a face, scarcely heard a voice say, "That is your friend," and then it was over, having filled him with beauty and taught him tenderness. He could die for such a friend, he would allow such a friend to die for him; they would make any sacrifice for each other, and count the world nothing, neither death nor distance nor crossness could part them, because "this is my friend.

For all his culture, Cecil was an ascetic at heart, and nothing in his love became him like the leaving of it.

The aims of battle and the fruits of conquest are never the same;

I have shared with Alec,' he said after deep thought. 'Shared what?' 'All I have. Which includes my body.

Money was the fruit of self-denial, and the second generation had a right to profit by the self-denial of the first

Petty unselfishness," she repeated. "I had got an idea that every one here spent their lives in making little sacrifices for objects they didn't care for, to please people they didn't love; that they never learnt to be sincere—and, what's as bad, never learnt how to enjoy themselves.

If someone creates a Nobel Prize for Unsung Hero, my nominee will be the divorced single mother

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

we can achieve nothing without paying the price.

Jesus] is the event of the unity of life and death for the sake of life. Thus he is the event of a still greater selflessness in the midst of such great selfrelatedness. That is how he is God.

One can, in fact, do nothing at all for love, although one can do everything out of love.

birini sevmek de i?te, kendi kanad?ndan, uçmaya yarayan o tek bir kemi?i ç?kar?p ba?kas?na vermektir, gönül r?zas?yla, gülerek, korkmadan.

Bilin ki büyük hayatlara niyet edenler büyük günahlar?n kefaretini göze almal?..

He gave them something solid to hate, and they gave him their votes. And once he started speaking in the name of we – as has happened many times over the course of history – they were ready to sacrifice themselves. As Americans know very well from their own constitution, the words 'We, the people' can build a new country and bring empires to their knees.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

Bucky did the things I couldn't. I was the icon. I wore the flag… But while I gave speeches to troops in the trenches… He was doing what he'd been trained to do… and he was highly trained.

Glory always has a price, and that cost is almost always paid in copiously spilled blood.

Evil rules, and good men must needs be outlaws—or corpses—if they're to stay good. So

I know the private was a grunt just by his attitude. You've got to love those guys; they're the real people of life. And they're hit on, shit on, tramped on, and fucked with forever.

Many of this generation, such as Clair, sacrificed dreams of what they wanted to do, in order to do what they had to do for a living. I wonder how many of us, or our descendants, would be able to do so well under such trying circumstances.

We can't let a cop be killed because a cop is a symbol of law and order.