Quotes About Sacrifice

Mi globo se deshizo en el aire y yo, con las manos vacías, aún tendidas hacia lo alto, caí fulminado, lapidado, haciendo tronar las tejas: era san Esteban de los Globos quien caía, el primer mártir de Santa Anita.

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.

God cannot be everywhere at once. That is why He created mothers

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

If we think of Christian theology and ethics purely in terms of forgiveness, we will have neglected a central aspect of God's own character and will be in no position to understand the cross in its fullest dimension.

After her husband died, she went away to live with her eldest son, and the round house shared the fate of Sally's. Where it stood is now a ploughed field. The husband's sacrifices, the wife's romance, are as though they had never been - 'melted into air, into thin air.

Lo extrañé mucho. Más que cualquier otra cosa de la que me haya visto obligado a desprenderme, lo que no es poco decir, y aún lo echo de menos ahora y siempre lo haré. Pero fue por una buena causa y en este mundo no podemos tener todo lo que queremos. No sería bueno para nosotros.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

I now place my personal will upon the altar. Your will, not my will; Your way not my way; Your time not my time—and in the twinkling of an eye it is done!

prefiero morir en sus manos en una agonía lenta, a saber que nunca te tendré a mi lado, porque hasta que eso suceda, viviré dichosa contigo y no destrozada como lo estoy. Déjame elegir a mí mi propio destino.

Terminarás esta noche en mi cama o en el infierno.

Sweet Mother, sweet Mother, send your child unto me, for the sins of the unworthy must be baptized in blood and fear.

We need not be surprised at this. On a wrong road, inconsistency is inevitable; if it were not so, mankind would be sacrificed. A false principle never has been, and never will be, carried out to the end.

If abnegation has indeed so many charms for you, why do you fail to practice it in private life? Society will be grateful to you, for someone, at least, will reap the fruit; but to desire to impose it upon mankind as a principle is the very height of absurdity, for the abnegation of all is the sacrifice of all, which is evil erected into a theory.

On a wrong road, inconsistency is inevitable; if it were not so, mankind would be sacrificed. A false principle never has been, and never will be, carried out to the end.

was created for eternal happiness with God in Heaven. Everything else must take second place in my life, because if I lose Heaven, I will be losing everything. The sure guide to Heaven is God's holy Will. If I follow it in my daily life, every moment on earth will be a sure step toward the perfect happiness which my heart craves.

Le bonheur est une chose si monstrueuse que, si vous n'en crevez pas vous-même, il exigera de vous au moins quelques assassinats. »

La publicidad es el único trabajo en el que te pagan por hacer las cosas peor de lo que puedes hacerlas. Cuando presentas una idea genial y el anunciante desea estropearla, concéntrate en pensar en tu sueldo, y, en treinta segundos de cronómetro, endósale una mierda siguiendo su dictado y añádele unas palmeras en el story-board para salir a rodar el spot durante una semana en Miami o Ciudad del Cabo.

And as we know from the pilgrimage diaries of Swami Ramdas, it is when we renounce everything that everything is given to us, in abundance. Everything: meaning the intensity of presence itself.

Ma come spiegarle?... Non capirebbe egualmente che io son piena di me stessa, che mi occupo tutta. Anna non aspetta che dei figli per annientarsi in loro, come ha fatto sua madre, come fanno tutte le donne della famiglia.

Una mujer que me hubiese amado hubiera deseado mi gloria. Me habría enseñado que el arte de vivir consiste en sacrificar una baja pasión por una más alta.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.