Quotes About Sacrifice

You can't serve God and Mammon." When Jesus used the word "Mammon," he used it almost synonymously with pleasure. So Jesus was saying that you can't serve God and Mammon at the same time. If you want to be his disciple, you have to leave Mammon. It's not that you shouldn't be comfortable; it's not about having comfort or not, but if you're seeking comfort, forget it. This path is definitely not yours. What he said is very true.

If you have to be in love, you should not be. The English expression "falling in love" is very significant. You don't climb in love, you don't stand in love, you don't fly in love, you fall in love. Something of you should fall or melt away to accommodate the other. There is a distinction between a transaction and a love affair. A love affair need not be with any particular person; you could be having a great love affair with life itself.

Giving up something for something else is commerce; giving up something for nothing is a sacrifice.

If it is all right for black people to be drafted and sent to Korea or South Vietnam or Laos or Berlin or someplace else to fight and die for the white man, then there is nothing wrong with that same black man doing the same thing when he is under the brutality in this country at the hands of the white man.

My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.

Excluding vacations, that's 144 gym classes a year, which comes to a lifetime total of 1,584; multiply that by forty minutes a class and it comes to 1,056 hours of nonstop harassment, or forty-four days of round-the-clock terror. POWs have died for less.

It's when you give something that you have very little of, that you truly give.

Many lumps of incense on the same altar. One crumbles now, one later, but it makes no difference

We are all mere nuggets of incense on the one altar. Some burn down now , some later - there is no difference .

The Roman religion was in fact of the nature of a bargain: men paid certain sacrifices and rites, and the gods granted their favour, irrespective of right or wrong. In

People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat.

Many grains of frankincense on the same altar: one falls before, another falls after; but it makes no difference.

Our heroes are over there where the white crosses are. We're survivors over here. None of us are heroes. I don't think you'll talk to a man who say we are. You figure a hero is someone who does above and beyond the call of duty, and when you give your life that's as above and beyond as you can get - Earl McClung.

The only course open is to pledge myself to the cause of making sure that the things he died for are not forgotten.

The freedom I live with and enjoy was established in their blood. They didn't even know me, but they were paying a debt for generations to come.

The sacrifice that Christianity asks of us is not ultimately a sacrifice of the intellect.

Why did it happen? Why did Jesus' life end this way? For centuries, Christians have seen Jesus' death as the very purpose of his life. It was salvific; that is, it had saving significance and makes our salvation possible.

If they mean, "Do you think Jesus saw his own death as a sacrifice for sin?" or "Do you think that God can forgive sins only because of Jesus' sacrifice?," my answer is no. But if they mean, "Is the statement a powerfully true metaphor of the grace of God?," then my answer is yes. Let me explain.

Rather, the language of divine agency here emphasizes the theme of God's grace: God provided the sacrifice.

Jim Crace's Quarantine [1997] and Norman Mailer's The Gospel According to the Son [1997].

Cuando lo hombres renuncian voluntariamente a su libertad po su seguridad, pronto pierden incluso esa degradada seguridad

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

Kill what you can't save what you can't eat throw out what you can't throw out bury What you can't bury give away what you can't give away you must carry with you, it is always heavier than you thought.

I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.