Quotes About Sacrifice

We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions

Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them.

Sometimes...it is better if wishes don't come true. Nothing is truly free, and all dreams have a price.

I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

I would give everything if I could only keep my family.

Take him to you, if you must, my love, but don't love him. Please don't love him.

Heartbreak was a luxury too costly for the single parent.

You know what makes me feel down? The way you keep promising to live some kind of a life, then sacrifice yourself to every waif and stray who comes across your path.

Anthony," she had said, and with that one word,had given him not only herself but a new, better edited version of his future.

Lo que sé es esto: nadie lo consigue todo. Y nosotras las inmigrantes lo sabemos mejor que nadie. Tienes siempre un pie en cada sitio. Nunca puedes ser feliz del todo porque cuando marchas te partes en dos y dondequiera que vayas una mitad está siempre llamando a la otra. Ese es el precio, Louisa. El precio a pagar por quienes somos. Tomó un sorbo de su vaso y

Strength—real strength—is not doing what someone asks you, necessarily. Strength is turning up every day to a situation that is intolerable, unbearable even, just to support the people you love. Strength is being in that terrible room hour after hour even though every cell in your body is telling you it's too much for you to cope with.

I know it's not how you would have chosen it,but I know I can make you happy. And all I can say is that you make... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy,even when you're awful. I would rather be with you-even the you that you seem to diminished-than with anyone else in the world.

I know we can do this. I know it's not how you would have chosen it, but I know I can make you happy. And all I can say in that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful, I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.

I looked at Will and I saw the baby I held in my arms, dewily besotted, unable to believe that I had created another human being. I saw the toddler, reaching for my hand, the schoolboy weeping tears of fury after being bullied by some other child. I saw the vulnerabilities, the love, the history. That's what he was asking me to extinguish—the small child as well as the man—all that love, all that history.