Quotes About Sacrifice

There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.

I would have given you the world if you had given me the chance.

Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.

We're so determined to help those we love that we lose all perspective

I push everyone I love away." He shrugged. "I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.

Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?

If I love the character and if I love the story, and the character requires me to be shirtless, or if it requires me to lose 30 pounds, I'm ready to do it.

You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.

Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.

I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood), but I love being a father; it's changed everything in so many ways.

The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you.

For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.

Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice could be borne.

Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.

Wish I could prove I love you, but does that mean I have to walk on water?

Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.

more never came home from the other trenches,' said

Tell me what you think love is! I seriously want to know! Okay, Eliot said. It's defining yourself through the eyes of another. It's coming to know a human being on a level so intimate that you lose any meaningful distinction between you, and you carry the knowledge that you are insufficient without her every day for twenty years, until she drives an animal transport at you, and you shoot her. It's that.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

Here was he, going to die for her; and here was she, blaming him for a breach of manners. Decidedly, the slave had the whip-hand.

He realised that to die for love of this lady would be no mere measure of precaution, or counsel of despair. It would be in itself a passionate indulgence—a fiery rapture, not to be foregone.

The whole country rests on a system that sacrifices resilience for comfort.

Injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Taking up our resources, our time to care for you. That's why most weapons of war are designed to injure instead of kill. Wounded are more of a drain than the dead.