Quotes About Sacrifice

We are gravely mistaken if we feel that Christianity is a religion to protect us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that there is a Good Friday before every Easter, and that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear.

In our comfort, we have forgotten that virtue is hard. In our wealth, we have forgotten that freedom is expensive.

You don't want to be killed. I don't either. But wouldn't you rather die once than die every day of your life?

The law of the sin offering reminds us that we can do harm unintentionally, and this can have consequences, both physical and psychological. The best way of putting things right is to make a sacrifice: to do something that costs us something.

Sacrifice is at the heart of both politics and family. Both parent and citizen understand themselves as subject to a demand for sacrifice. They recognise the demand as legitimate because they live in the world of meanings that the sacrificial act affirms. Sacrifice is, accordingly, the way of being in a meaningful world. Sacrifice, we say, is an act of love. In love, we are willing to sacrifice, and through that sacrifice we simultaneously create and discover the subject that we are.

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.

You shouldn't have done it," I said. "You shouldn't have risked yourself." "Come off it," Lockwood said. "You know I'd die for you." He chuckled. "Heaven knows, I've come near it often enough. Scrambling down a crack in the ground is nothing…

That didn't last long, of course. "Oh Bartimaeus, could you just irrigate the Fertile Cresent?""Could you just divert the Euphrates HERE and HERE?""Look, while you're at it, do you mind just planting a few million wheat seeds up and down the flood plain? Thanks." Didn't even give me a dibble. By the time I got to Ur I wasn't surging with any of that terrible joy, oh no. My back was KILLING me.

Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price. Thinking

La libertad es una fantasía, siempre tiene un precio.

Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

What cannot be changed, must be endured," he said grimly. "Our duty now is to the living.

Burnt toast is actually fairly symbolic of Motherhood. If you are the one who burned the toast, you scrape if off and eat it yourself. If they burned it, you eat it because the burned it specially for you.

In war, love is a luxury. It comes at a high price... This brand of marriage, I guess, takes steady nerves.

Really, dear," Brian's mother reassured him, as they lined up for tickets. "It's about war.

that coin purse rather than sell it. With a heavy heart, Vere accepted that his brother had been a military hero, but a man of little honour.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind."

che ogni sofferenza assunta in Cristo perde la sua disperazione, la sua stessa negatività

Tutto ciò che appartiene all'ordine spirituale progredisce attraverso le morti e le successive resurrezioni, e non c'è più nulla che conti quando manca al cuore questo assoluto dell'amore