Quotes About Sacrifice

There is often more pleasure in suffering than in happiness; look at the martyrs!

A woman deprived of her free will can never have the credit of making a sacrifice.

The lover submits to all the caprices of a woman; and as a man is never vile while he lies in the arms of his mistress, he will take the means to please her that a husband would recoil from.

The artisan, the man of the proletariat, who uses his hands, his tongue, his back, his right arm, his five fingers, to live—well, this very man, who should be the first to economize his vital principle, outruns his strength, yokes his wife to some machine, wears out his child, and ties him to the wheel.

She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

The King stands for us all. To die for the King is to die for oneself, for one's family, which, like the kingdom, cannot die.

Whenever you get something in this world, you lose something too — that's just the way things work.

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

I envied his inspiration, his optimism in focusing back on the painful but glorious days. They were caring days, when we knew what we were living and fighting for and why we needed to suffer and sacrifice. Those were the days when all of us were young, very pure and very sincere.

M? ki?p, hòa-bình ch?ng qua là th? cây m?c lên t? máu th?t bao anh em mình, ?? ch?a l?i chút x??ng. Mà nh?ng ng??i ???c phân công n?m l?i gác r?ng le là nh?ng ng??i ?áng s?ng nh?t.

Ngh?a v? c?a m?t con ng??i tr??c Tr?i ??t là s?ng ch? không ph?i là hy sinh nó, là n?m tr?i s? ??i m?t cách ?? ngành ng?n ch? không ph?i là ch?i b?

The girls? We sacrificed them to the water spirit, sir. We used their bodies as an offering. They cried and carried on like crazy." Kien's scouts drew their bayonets. Lien held them back. "Stop! Don't. Perhaps these guys might also want to cry like crazy as the girls did before they died. They won't want to die immediately, will they?

??i ng??i ch? có gang tay, ??a nào hay ng? ch? còn n?a gang…

It was from that moment, when Phuong was violently taken from him, that the bloodshed truly began and his life entered into bloody suffering and failure. And he would understand true sacrifice: friends who would die to save others.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.

Who would stick around to wrestle a dark angel all night long if there were any chance of escape? The only answer I can think of is this: someone in deep need of blessing; someone willing to limp forever for the blessing that follows the wound.

If Jesus meant for his followers to rule the world, then why did he teach them to wash feet? As difficult as it is to accept, I believe that his death on the cross reveals the God who suffers for love instead of punishing the unloving, the God who lays down his life for his friends.

If Jesus meant for his followers to rule the world, then why did he teach them to wash feet?

I had refused the body and blood of Christ because it was painful to the person beside me. I had chosen to abstain with him rather than to participate without him. Though I knew full well that he did not expect that of me - that it was possible for a full-fledged Christian and a full-fledged Jew to stand together in their difference - at that moment I did not want to celebrate any Communion that did not include him.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

When a man loves as i love you,that love takes everything else from him.If i cannot have you,if you send me away,I shall then be only the empty shell of what i am now.I love you,i worship you, and i cannot go on through life without you!