Quotes About Sacrifice

They're first, that's all. I could love you more than life itself and they would still be first. It's a commitment a mother makes when she has children.

I'm going back to sacrifice myself to the gods of residency in two days. They'll chew me up and spit me out. Those chief residents are ruthless and they want revenge for what was done to them when they were the little guys.

This isn't going to be an issue for long. In fact, much sooner than I like to think about, she'll be gone. She gave me her whole adult life, always putting me first. If I don't give her a few years of mine, the rest of my life won't matter a damn.

my mother—a young woman with a passel of kids and no

It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring

your mom gay and im gay for you thats why I left my other 2 wives for you

Not all of us are called to die a martyr's death," he wrote, "but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had."9

If everyone, including himself, loved as they should love, they would love God more than they loved themselves and their passions.

time arrives if we have not prepared ourselves to accept pain and loss for the sake of God's kingdom. Most of us in the West don't yet have opportunities to suffer for the faith like Christians under communism did, but we have their stories to guide us, as well as the accounts of Christian martyrdom

Love is not a contractual exchange. Love is given with no expectation of return. Love does not keep a ledger.

We will know when we act—or fail to act—as Christians when to be faithful costs us something. It may be a small thing at first—a place on a sports team because we won't play on Sunday mornings, or the respect of our peers when we will not march in a parade for a political cause. But the demands made on us will grow greater, and the consequences for failing to submit to the world's demands will grow more severe.

A Christian who practices asceticism trains himself to say no to his desires and yes to God.

I felt like a mushroom. Mushroom? Yeah, Robert answered. To grow mushrooms you keep them in the dark, feed them manure, then when they grow up you cut them off at the root.

This had been the number of Spartans killed during the defence of the pass of Thermopylae in 480 BCE

There is something almost sacred about the bond that unites these troops

Philip won the day. As many as half the Athenians and Thebans were either killed or taken prisoner.

not only for those who had lost their lives but also for the 'liberty of Hellas

It is our fate to give ourselves most lavishly to those who'd rather not be burdened with the gift

Si crees que no comprendo que he fracasado en mi vida… so crees que me parece justo que ustedes paguen por mis fracasos, te equivocas. Yo también lo quiero todo para ti. Si crees que no saldremos de este lugar a algo mejor, e equivocas. Estoy dispuesto a todo para asegurar tu porvenir.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

On the Doncella, Federico Venusta had his hand mutilated by the explosion of his own grenade. He demanded a galley slave cut it off. When the man refused, he performed the operation himself and then went to the cook's quarters, ordered them to tie the carcass of a chicken over the bleeding stump, and returned to battle, shouting at his right hand to avenge his left.

Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

We hadn't yet traded freedom for comfort.