Quotes About Sacrifice

No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

There was really only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

What is done out of love is beyond Good and Evil

In our hatred, we are like bees who must pay with their lives for the use of their stingers

Not a few who meant to drive out their demons went thereby into the swine themselves.

The last Christian died on the cross.

Since everyone could not be given a knowledge of the Savior, God gave every soul a mother. Maybe He hoped that through some of these mothers, He could give all His children a taste of the selfless sacrifice and perfect love of Christ. Perhaps it it through the love of good mothers that God prepares all of His children to one day recognize and accept the love of their good Savior.

Sacrifice is not the price we pay to earn the celestial kingdom; it is the essence of the celestial kingdom. Testimony is not the word that gets us through the gates; it is the language spoken inside. Charity is not an audition piece for the heavenly choir; it is the celestial music. Service is not a vegetable we plug our noses and have to force down; it is the celestial diet.

A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live.

Would you choose water over wine?

One must die at the present level to be reborn onto a higher plane not just in the physical state, but also in the conscious and emotional state.

Set yourself on fire and the world will come to see you burn

He had helped her out of a difficult trap. He had been willing to sacrifice his own life for her Amber Leopard, even when she had turned a blind eye to his people. She could tolerate his impertinence, she supposed. Just this one time.

her life at Zzyzx to save the world. If she was needed again

and are paying a heavy price for losing.

I will protect even those I hate," Kaladin whispered through bloody lips. "So long as it is right.

Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff. Waxilliam: And? Wayne: And I just couldn't leave you to a fate like that...I'm too good a friend to let a mate of mine die in such a terrible situation. Waxilliam: Comfortable? Wayne: No. Boring.

A man is what he has passion about," Breeze said. "I've found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll just end up miserable.

I will protect those I hate. Even if the one I hate most is myself.

I am, unfortunately, the Hero of Ages.

So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.