Quotes About Sacrifice

Christ, you who were crucified! Now I have given up everything that could bind me. And I have placed myself in your hands, if you would find my life worthy enough to be freed from its servitude to Satan. Take me so that I may feel that I am your slave, for then I will possess you in return.

When you have a child, you have to put things aside, though. You have to live for them, if not for yourself. I was aware of this. I knowed that I could not let myself die inside, so I struggled through and made a way for myself. Most important, I tried to find a way to get joy into my life. I made a way for the possibility of joy. I looked for it anywhere I could find it. I got up early and stepped out onto the porch to see day come in.

Ne jau par savu godu ir j?c?n?s. No vis?m šai pasaul? iesp?jamaj?m darb?b?m karš ir tas, kur? goda ir vismaz?k. Vien?gais gods ir c?n?ties un mirt tikai t?p?c, lai karš beigtos un vairs nekad neb?tu vajadz?bas karot atkal. Gods ir saprast, kad j?karo, un prast apst?ties, kad karošanai var dar?t galu.

I trust you, Daddy. I don't mind hurting for you.

The couple had only lived a short while in that village, and they were poor as rats. Leonarda's husband bought damaged cigarettes, personally extracted his own teeth, ate meat and polenta twice a week, drank mate from an earthenware mug, never took his wife to the movies, and when she was ill he took her to a veterinarian.

I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.

Poets, I dare you to choose, for one night, the ambrosia over the ashes.

Honor and duty will ride upon my shoulders till the day I die, like the old man of the sea, who once picked up can never be put dow.

Eddie Drood: Is this why we become agents? To play games, to chase after secrets that are rarely worth all the blood spilled on their behalf...To end up stabbed in the back, just when you thought you'd won, bleeding out in some nameless backstreet...With most people never even knowing who you were, or what you did, or why it mattered?

Sometimes you can't save everyone. Sometimes all you can do... is kill a whole bunch of people.

When all else fails, you can always damn yourself with a necessary evil, for the greater good.

No, no, no, choose life , More Marimondes thought. It wasn't that he disrespected the sacrifice of the martyr, but the simplicity of absolute ideals, across all religions, he found alien and disrespectful of the injunction to save life clearly enjoined in the Torah.

a young student had written to his father, justifying his decision to volunteer by declaring that "our liberty can only be assured if it will have for its bed a mattress of cadavers… I consent to become one of those cadavers.

Nu exista o alta ilustrare mai mare a bunatatii decat Crucea de la Golgota.Acolo,Domnul Isus a acceptat sa moara pentru pacatele mele.El S-a facut jertfa de ispasire pentru mine.Bunatatea Lui nemarginita mi-a dat dreptul sa ma fac copil al Lui Dumnezeu.

The war could not be won – but could it be ended with honour?

War was simply a slaughterhouse on wheels, he thought. For most men, soldiering was tragedy expressed as a profession.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

You are the one girl that made me risk eveything for a future worth having.

I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.

But I know loving someone means losing a part of myself.