Quotes About Sacrifice

There is life and life, and as waste is only life sacrificed and thereby prevented from counting, I delight in a deep breathing economy and an organic form.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it is an insatiable white louse which must die eventually of inanition. I am going to starve the white louse which is eating me up. I am going to die as a city in order to become again a man. Therefore I close my ears, my eyes, my mouth.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen. What stays him, usually, is the fear of the sacrifices involved. (Even to relinquish his chains seems like a sacrifice.) yet everyone knows that nothing is accomplished without sacrifice.

Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chose. What stays him, usually, is the fear of the sacrifices involved. (Even to relinquish his chains seems like a sacrifice.) Yet everyone knows that nothing is accomplished without sacrifice.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

Por una razón u otra, el hombre busca el milagro y para lograrlo es capaz de abrirse paso entre la sangre.

You have to be wiped out as a human being in order to be born again an individual.

Men will sacrifice their lives to bring about a better world—whatever that may mean—but they will not budge an inch to attain paradise. Nor will they struggle to create a bit of paradise in the hell they find themselves.

No one is born an artist. One elects for it! And when you elect to be the first and last among men you find nothing strange about sleeping with a donkey, putting your paws in the garbage pail, or swallowing reproaches and insults from all the near and dear ones who regard your way of life as a grave mistake.

He`s put a fence around her as if she were a dirty, stinking bone of a saint. If he only had the courage to say Take her! perhaps a miracle would occur.

until the heart bursts and there is nothing left but a blinding, scorching light, the radiant light that carries off the fecundated seeds of the stars. The story of art which roots lie in massacre.

The god of love had shot all his arrows, but could never pierce his heart, till at length he put himself into the bow.

When all his other gifts could not prevail, he at last made a gift of himself, to testify his affection and engage theirs.

El amor perfecto es una especie de autodestrucción, un ausentarse de uno mismo; es una especie de muerte voluntaria en la que el amante muere para sí mismo, y para todos sus intereses, y ni siquiera piensa ni se preocupa más por ellos, y no tiene más interés que agradar y complacer al objeto de su amor.

Qué placer infinito debe ser perderse en Él, y, al ser, por así decirlo, tragado en la imponente sensación de su bondad, ofrecernos como sacrificio vivo, siempre ascendiendo hacia Él en llamas de amor!

There comes a point in your life when the Lord opens your eyes to understand what the Christian life was meant to be. It isn't just going to heaven when you die; it's dying to self on earth and allowing Him to live through you.

If you want to determine whether God loves you, don't look at your current situation; look to the cross.

The Father said no, despite the unfathomable love He had for His Son, because He knew He could not spare His Son and save a world. Likewise, the Lord cannot always spare you and your family and complete His redemptive work in those around you. Are you willing for God to deny your pleadings? Will you intercede with the Father so deeply and intimately that even in the midst of your tears you are able to say, "Nevertheless, not my will but thine be done"?

Some of the most miserable people we have known were those who received God's call to full-time Christian service but spent a lifetime rejecting it.

Lord cannot always spare you and your family and complete His redemptive work in those around you.

The fishermen could not remain in their fishing boats and become apostles of Jesus Christ.

be incapable of ministering to everyone God sends you unless you have His love. You cannot forgive others or go the extra mile with others or sacrifice for others unless you have first been filled with the boundless love of God. Seek to know the Father and His immeasurable love; then allow His Son to love others through you!