Quotes About Sacrifice

May the dead forgive me, I can do no other But as I am commanded; to do more is madness. - Ismene, Antigone (The Theban Plays) by Sophocles

who will he be, my dear ones? Risking all to shoulder the curse that weighs down my parents, yes and you too—that wounds us all together

though it costs a little sorrow in the bargain

One word frees us from all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

S takva djela dika mi je mrijet, Jer draga do njeg - do dragog ?u u grob le?, U?iniv sveti grijeh. Ta dulje svi?at se Ja svijetu moram onom negol' ovome, Jer ondje dovijek ?u po?ivat. Svi?a l' se Onako tebi, zakon božji pogazi!

Io ho desiderato, fino alla disperazione, di poter essere tutto per lei, fino al giorno in cui ho appreso, nel dolore, che è infinitamente più nobile non essere, per lei, assolutamente niente.

Only the one who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved.

What is the New Testament? A handbook for those who are to be sacrificed.

Give up your good 'Christian' life and follow Jesus

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.

This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes the straight and narrow way that leads to life eternal.

I can only give my life in a way that makes me comfortable.

I have four kids in a private school who have not yet entered college. Their tuition is what keeps me motivated. Life is simple sometimes.

The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.

The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.

I say no wealth is worth my life.

I have given my life to the game and to the sport.

If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight.

We risk life and limb and my princely good looks for a spoonful of sweet sock?

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.