Quotes About Sacrifice

Most literary people die of starvation.

The underlying logic of sacrifice was always the same: In order to gain the god's goodwill, destroy what you value most.

It's a strange thing, having a child," he said. It completely alters your most fundamental priorities. When my eldest daughter was born, I realized that I would do anything - anything - to protect her. If I had to set myself on fire to save her from something, I would do it with the utmost relief and gratitude. It's quite a thing, quite a privilege, to care about someone so much that the measure of worth of your own life is changed so much." Tatsu.

Redemption' (root p??â) in the Old Testament is fundamentally 'rescue', frequently through the payment of a price

The cross places us under a far greater obligation to love than the exodus ever could.

Romeo gritted his teeth and let the wind hit his face. Believe it, he told himself. Life with this woman will be without apologies.

You don't need to be "straight" to fight and die for your country; you just need to shoot straight.

As far as I am concerned, the notion that God requires a blood sacrifice to forgive the sins of humanity is easily the saddest, most hurtful, and most discouraging doctrine ever invented.

Our words—our lives—our pains: nothing! The taking of our lives—lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler—all! That last moment belongs to us—that agony is our triumph.

Love expresses a need for sacrifice each unity must lose itself in some other which exceeds it. In erotic frenzy the being is led to tear itself apart and lose itself.... Two beings are lost in a convulsion that binds them together. But they only communicate when losing a part of themselves. Communication ties them together with wounds, where their unity and integrity dissipate in fever.

There is something of both childishness and sorcery in a woman making up. The event keeps the world in suspense by the simple interaction between a mirror and a face. It is the reconciliation of technique and guile. It has no equivalent in the universe of thought except perhaps when suffering is dressed up in ascetic garb. It is, moreover, each day (and several times a day) the sacrificial moment of a woman's life.

Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil.

One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.

When you're young, you don't realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.

I can't tell you how many times I quit only to realize that when the work has been your life, you don't really have a life without it.

What I realized was that CrossFit wasn't what defined me as a human being, it was the sacrifice that Christ made for me and all of us that defined who I was.

The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first.

I decided I wanted to be a dancer. Juilliard was in walking distance from home, so I very stupidly went and applied, not realizing the money it would cost which my parents didn't have. It took a hundred dollars just to apply for a scholarship. But I made it.

Service is key. And as I have more on my plate, and I have more ambitions and more goals and things I want for myself, I'm realizing more and more how important it is to be a servant.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.