Quotes About Sacrifice

Survival is a passive way of saying "my needs are greater than yours.

To live forever, die in the service of others.

Service is the highest form of worship.

Sometimes, even pretty simple situations can become tough, when the thing you love the most and the thing you have to sacrifice is the same.

Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be.

They are strong wives, devoted moms, and beautiful women, trying to find a way to earn and keep their wings because God knows, it's not easy being married to the military.

You cannot drink the nectar of love without bleeding for its thorns.

Dianna Hardy, The Demon Bride

Parenthood makes such sweet hypocrites of us all.

No one can bar the road to truth and to advance its cause I'm ready to accept even death.

The level of our responsibility in things of God determines our level of prosperity

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16

I play with the fire of my own truth, " she told me, "I will burn for the things I love.

You saw this as a travesty because, by marrying Mara, I was taking an important icon from you. But this is about starting a new life, not ending an old one.

Gordon wrote in one 1983 essay. "As a performer you sacrifice yourself, you go through the motions and emotions of sexuality for all the people who pay to see it, to believe that it exists. The better and more convincing the performance, the more an audience can identify with the exterior involved in such an expenditure of energy.

they also went out of their way to play all-ages shows, often hurting their draw by playing two sets a night.

All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.

Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself.

Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.

All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster weight of God. He's tired of hearing about the promised land and the inevitable bloodshed required for its redemption.

Over the years I'd surrendered many vices, among them whiskey, cigarettes, and the various non-Newtonian drugs, but marijuana and I remained steadfast companions.

To reach escape velocity, my grandmother, like any spacefarer, would be obliged to leave almost everything behind her. A moment after he

Fatherhood impose[s] an obligation that [is] more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.

Such men roamed the world acting, always anonymously, to procure the freedom of others, whether physical or metaphysical, emotional