Quotes About Sacrifice

well, anyhow, this is what I was meant to make for a man, and to give him this colossal reservoir of faith and love for him to swim in daily

I give and give; my whole life will be a saying of poems and a loving of people and giving of my best fiber to them.

The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.

Christianity is 'A condition of complete simplify (Costing not less than everything.)' Four Quartets

A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident.

A martyrdom is always the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to bring them back to His ways. It is never the design of man; for the true martyr is he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, and who no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of being a martyr.

I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice

A martyr is, he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not lost it but found it, for he has found freedom in submission to God. The martyr no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of martyrdom.

You have to care for the animal you sacrifice; you have to love it. Why should you offer Allah a sacrifice that means nothing to you?

Take my word for it, Calley. You have to be careful what you love because love has to be paid for.

I can't fucking believe you're saying this. You know better. Being a grownup is suicide to an artist.

Because love does not do sums, but instead make choices, and then gives its all.

Fight and live, fight and die, God waits for all.

Piercing My Hearte there is A Golden Dagger; That is God Piercing God's Hearte there is a Golden Needle; That is me

But remember this lesson, Simon, one fit for kings... or the sons of kings. Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious.

How can you care for a rough man like me?' he asked me. 'How can you love a man who can bring you no lands but the farm a soldier's pension can buy? Who can give your children no title of nobility?' Because love does not do sums, I should have told him. Love makes choices, and then gives its all. Had he seen himself as I first saw him though, he could have had no questions.

Oh, please, Barrick, sweet angry Barrick, don't fall in love with Death.

Love. Tired old jokes aside, a real, powerful love does have one thing in common with Hell itself: it burns everything else out of you.

Doctor Morgenes once told me that, in old Khand, they would kill the king's wives and concubines when he died, so that they could accompany him to the next life. Dear Simon, [Miriamele] said. I will leave word in my testament that they are not to kill you when I die. And I will do the same for you, dear Miri. But you may feel free to leap into my grave, as long as it's your own idea.

God shapes us with a hammer of pain on an anvil of duty. I cannot imagine what shape we will be when He is finished.

As solemn music played, vying with the harsh wind to be heard, the thought came to many of those who watched that although Sesuad'ra's defenders had won an improbable and heroic victory, they had paid dearly for it. The fact that they had defeated only the tiniest portion of the forces arrayed against them, and had lost nearly half their number in doing so, made the winter-shrouded hillcrest seem an even colder and lonelier place.

And you, a king's daughter, who willingly gave herself to me—who brought me to her bed? Are you so high and pure?" She

A couple I once knew from my university days told me, when they had their first child, that they had given a hostage to Fate and would never be comfortable again. I understand now. It hurts to love. It hurts to care.