Quotes About Sacrifice

Desert Pools I love too much; I am a river Surging with spring that seeks the sea, I am too generous a giver, Love will not stoop to drink of me. His feet will turn to desert places Shadowless, reft of rain and dew, Where stars stare down with sharpened faces From heavens pitilessly blue. And there at midnight sick with faring, He will stoop down in his desire To slake the thirst grown past all bearing In stagnant water keen as fire.

I have shut my heart As one shuts an open door, That Love may starve therein And trouble me no more.

You bound strong sandals on my feet, You gave me bread and wine, And sent me under sun and stars, For all the world was mine. Oh, take the sandals off my feet, You know not what you do; For all the world is in your arms, My sun and stars are you.

the only thing I wanted was to walk with Frodo into Mordor. Because if I could live for a little while inside a great story written by a first-rate Christian storyteller, maybe my fragmented world just might make some kind of narrative sense again. And I was right.

While the Witch plays her pawn, the King sacrifices Himself, and to all appearances, the game is over. But the Lion has one last move...

Once the curtain is raised, the actor ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public.

I have done all that I can for you and less than I should.

Take my day, take my night, take my sunrise, take my life.

I've lived life without you, and I couldn't bear it. Not when I had the strength to save you.

Everyone happy with the plan?' 'I'm not happy about any of this,' Zera said. Kreya one hundred percent agreed with that, as did they all. But they set about doing it anyways, because that was what heroes did.

Do you understand, my star? I would destroy the world for you.

The circumstances of our meeting. I was wounded, my eyes were bandaged, and she saved my life. But most curious, ridiculous, really, if examined logically, is the fact that though I never actually saw the woman, I fell in love with her.

I am just going outside and I may be some time

When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes - 'time to save the world!'

These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

I'm working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.

It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

God's response to the belittlement of his name, from the beginning of time, has been the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross.

During production, I didn't ever have one minute off to go file my nails, or do anything which girls quite like to do some of the time. I couldn't do anything. I turned into a zombie.

Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?