Quotes About Sacrifice

Always do what will cost you the most.

Ori de câte ori m? gândesc la crucificarea lui Hristos, s?vâÅŸesc p?catul invidiei.

The fact of dying for what is strong robs death of its bitterness—and at the same time of all its value.

On God's part creation is not an act of self-expansion but of restraint and renunciation.

Once we have understood we are nothing, the object of all our efforts is to become nothing. It is for this that we suffer with resignation, it is for this that we act, it is for this that we pray.

God denied himself for our sakes in order to give us the possibility of denying ourselves for him. This response, this echo, which it is in our power to refuse, is the only possible justification for the folly of love of the creative act.

the Son of God took our nature and came in the likeness of sinful flesh (Rom. 8:3) in order to exchange places with Adam, so that His obedience and righteousness might for our sakes be exchanged for Adam's (and our) disobedience and sin (Rom. 5:12-21). Exchange

The gospel is designed to deliver us from this lie. For it reveals that behind and manifested in the coming of Christ and his death for us is the love of a Father who gives us everything he has: first his Son to die for us and then his Spirit to live within us.27

True Christian liberty, unlike the various freedom or liberation movements of the secular world, is not a matter of demanding the rights we have.

The Father of Glory does not lurk behind His Son with sinister intent to do us ill, restrained only by the cruel and bloody sacrifice His Son has made! No, a thousand times no! The Father loves us in the love of the Son and the love of the Spirit (John 16:27).

I pledge myself to serve the Corporate State, the Chief, all Commissioners, the Mystic Wheel, and the troops of the Republic in every thought and deed.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

Teach self denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

I tell thee, proud Templar, that not in thy fiercest battles hast thou displayed more of thy vaunted courage than has been shown by woman when called upon to suffer by affection or duty.

I figure when I die, I can't take anything with me. So why not give?

Lourdes has decided. She will leave. She will go to the United States and make money and send it home. She will be gone for one year - less, with luck - or she will bring her children to be with her. It is for them she is leaving, she tells herself, but still she feels guilty.

Our farmers make enough rice to feed all of us, yet we must eat millet and barley. All that rice goes to feed the Imperial soldiers sent the Japanese residents...some even gets sent back to Japan...and the prices they charge us for the little rice that remains! Did you see the look of satisfaction on Captain Narita's face as he looked at these coarse little cookies?

I stare into his eyes, I shake my head, sorry for the chance we lost. The chance we maybe never had. But not for saving him. I would do that again, no matter the cost.

You have my word. If you return with me, you won't be harmed. I'd die first.

I had a choice: Follow my heart or don't break his. I think in the end I broke a bit of both our hearts.

Which would you choose if you could: pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief?

You chose to live, I chose to die.

It is the dead Not the living, who make the longest demands: We die for ever...

I need one food: I must not violate Elektra