Quotes About Sacrifice

My chest tightens at the thought of what all this could mean to Lilly. But I have no choice. I made a vow to defend this country, and I'm the only person who can do this.

teachings from Sage Emperor Guan's Book of Enlightenment. For one, "It is through filial piety, sibling harmony, dedication, trustworthiness, propriety, sacrifice, honor, and sense of shame that we become fully human.

we will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.

To love as God loves, in other words, you may have to part with whatever is most precious to you for the sake of someone else.

The world writes books with titles like Think and Grow Rich, but if Jesus were writing for today's market, he'd title his book Love and Give Everything Away.

Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American.

Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.

True patriotism is doing something for your country.

But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!

it's a tough thing having to step aside for a friend, when your heart's breaking and your nether parts are still tangled up in their base desires.

We have to harden our hearts and think of the greater good. The plan is, our exposure to her is supposed to purify us. But it seems more like her exposure to us is diminishing her.

Those men had given up parts of their bodies, pieces of their minds, to kill an enemy they couldn't see, to save friends they couldn't forget, to take a piece of ground they couldn't own.

Most people fail rather than succeed because they give up what they really want for what they want at the moment.

This religion so great in miracles, in men holy, pure and irreproachable, in scholars, great witnesses and martyrs, established kings - David - Isaiah, a prince of the blood; so great in knowledge, after displaying all its miracles and all its wisdom, rejects it all and says that it offers neither wisdom nor signs, but only the Cross and folly.

Do you want it always to cost me the blood of my humanity while you do not even shed a tear?

Circumcision of the heart, true fasting, true sacrifice, true temple;2 the prophets showed that all this must be spiritual. Not the flesh that perishes, but that which does not perish.3 'Ye shall be free indeed.'4 So the other freedom is just a figurative freedom. 'I am the true bread from heaven.'5

If we ought to give up a week we ought to give up our whole life.

Je ne crois que les histoires dont les témoins se feraient égorger.

Jesus Christ came to blind those who saw clearly, and to give sight to the blind; to heal the sick, and leave the healthy to die; to call to repentance, and to justify sinners, and to leave the righteous in their sins; to fill the needy, and leave the rich empty.

When Jesus speaks about a reward here, he means the reward in the kingdom that comes.

All suffering comes from cherishing ourselves. All happiness comes from cherishing others. —Tibetan saying

God said: Abraham, kill me a son. Abe said: Man, you must be putting me on. God said: No. Abe said: What God said: You can do what you want Abe but the next time you see me coming you'd better run. Abe said: Where you want this killing done? God said: Out on Highway 61.

You can be known as the most beautiful woman who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal

My grandfather was a duck trapper He could do it with just dragnets and ropes My grandmother could sew new dresses out of old cloth I don't know if they had any dreams or hopes I had 'em once though, I suppose, to go along With all the ring-dancin' Christmas carols on all of the Christmas eves I left all my dreams and hopes Buried under tobacco leaves