Quotes About Sacrifice

Just so you know, I'm goin' to enlist." "I'm proud of you. But why?" I groan against the pain but manage to give him a half smile. "I want to make sure Kiara's got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that could make angels weep.

Now I understand all those chick flicks I made fun of. 'Cause now I'm the sappy dork willing to risk it all for the girl. Estoy enamorado...I'm in love.

Believe me, I know people who have doting Grandmas. Jessica's Grandma Pearl spent four years knitting her a blanket. Four years! And she's got arthritis. I wonder what Grandma Pearl would think if she knew Jessica lost her virginity to Michael Greenberg under the blanket she spent four years knitting with her crooked fingers.

But she had known life for a long time, my amorous mother with her two bastards for earrings; and she knew that almost always you have to tear out your entrails and fill your belly with straw if you want to enjoy a little walk in the sun.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

We did not flinch but gave our lives to saveGreece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.

We lost lovely youth facing the rough clouds of war

When you're a dad you can't keep your cool car. Fancy stereo, power windows, sunroof; the kids are going to kill all that stuff. Take an ordinary cookie. In the hands of a kid it becomes a sugar hand grenade. You have to take the car into the shop because chocolate chips are clogging the carburetor.

As the early church fathers delighted in saying, Christ took what was ours so that we might receive what was His.

Here are wonders upon wonders: the Strong One is weak; the Infinite One lies in a manger; the Prince of Life dies; the Crucified One lives; the Humiliated One is glorified. Meekness and majesty, indeed! Behold, then, your newborn King! Come and worship Him!

The subtle danger here should be obvious: if we speak of the cross of Christ as the cause of the love of the Father, we imply that behind the cross and apart from it he may not actually love us at all. He needs to be "paid" a ransom price in order to love us.

Living in the Spirit means a daily commitment to please Christ and not to please self.

It's only since we've had Steve with us that I've realized how much of himself a man has to give before he's really possessed. I used to think it was possession because we lived together as man and wife. I didn't know how little it can amount to wanting a woman at night, putting up with her in the daytime.

"with love you can give much and lose nothing." sm

Service is not easy but necessary

Service is not slavery.

At that time Math son of Mathonwy could not live unless his feet were in the lap of a virgin, except when the turmoil of war prevented him.

Don't poets know it, Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers.

Qui procul hinc, the legend's writ,The frontier grave is far away—Qui ante diem periit:Sed miles, sed pro patria.

What call ye them or Goods or Ills, ill-goods, good-ills, a loss, a gain, When realms arise and falls a roof; a world is won, a man is slain?

Hardly we find the path of love, to sink the self, forget the "I," When sad suspicion grips the heart, when Man, the Man begins to die:

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Sometimes love was not about winning, but about wise sacrifice and the realiability of friends like Arianne. Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.

The battles, the fights, the bruises, the bites. That's the way true love grows.