Quotes About Sacrifice

Love? You have no understanding that to love is to give, not to take.

My beloved, you have chosen me. You have been courted by my adversary, and you have chosen me. You have answered my call to the Circle, and today I call you my bride.

Elyon was restoring the Great Romance. Teeleh had stolen his first love, but now Justin had reclaimed her. The price had been his own life. He'd taken her disease on himself and he'd drowned with it, inviting them to embrace his invitation to the Romance by following him into the lake to drown with him. To live as his bride!

Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.

There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it much easier for him to hand it over.

When the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you. But you do not belong to the world. I have brought you out of the world and that is why it hates you.

What a terrible thing it is for children to see death, you say. We have it all wrong. If you make a child terrified of death, he won't embrace it so easily. And death must be embraced if you wish to follow Christ. Listen to His teaching. 'Unless you become like a child...and unless you take up your cross daily, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.' One is not valuable without the other. Janjic Jovic, The Dance of the Dead, 1959

If someone tries to follow the narrow way and does not set aside who they think they are and what they think they need, they cannot follow.

When you have a desperate love for God,' Father Micheal would say, 'the comforts of this world feel like paper flowers. They are easily put aside. If you really have God's love.

He who holds his life dear is destroying it; And he who makes his life of no account in this world Will keep it to the life of the ages." Yeshua

Do you believe? I believe, he said softly. What do you believe? I believe that I will kill these two to save my wife and son. Belief. Something about belief mattered greatly.

There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of his blood will never be the same.

How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?" This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost.

Everything I do is for you and this safe haven you've built for me," Sylous said. "Do you doubt that?

What is love?

How could he doubt such a lovely daughter who had agreed with him at each turn, though he'd had to break three of her fingers to convince her that he was right?

Love is giving, not taking.

Mary is an apple. Whoever plucks her Nails his heart To the leafless tree.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Porque te quiero, maldita sea. Porque siempre te he amado. Porque te amaba cuando estabas con John, te amaba cuando yo estaba en la India, y aunque Dios sabe que no te merezco, te amo de todos modos". - Michael Stirling.

The price of great love is great misery when one of you dies.

Julian Hawthorne

His life was centred in Christ and everything was done as to the Lord.

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.