Quotes About Sacrifice

More than my own life

I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant i could have Bella.

This isn't about them, he snarled at me. This is about Bella. She has never been the one for you, she had never chosen you, but you continue to destroy your life for her!

Could I betray my absent heart to save my pathetic life?

You think I regret saving your life?

That man loves God who puts his own life in harmony with him, and who serves his fellow men as though his life depends upon it, as indeed it does.

Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.

if i win and you die, i dont have a home to go back to. you are my life.

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

I've never worked so hard for anything in my life as I have for you.

Do I like to write? Why? About what? Will I give up and say, "Living and feeding a man's insatiable guts and begetting children occupies my whole life. Don't have time to write"?

If you become a monk because it's an easy life, because you're going to be fed, and sheltered and people will respect you, then that is not a very meritorious motivation.

I do think that someone who decides to devote themselves entirely to the spiritual life, that that is more meritorious.

I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.

It's immoral to ask people to risk their life.

Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'

The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you.

He was on his knees before this female, and he'd gladly stay there for the rest of his life.

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.