Quotes About Sacrifice

Timpul d-tale interior, singurul care conteaz?, îÅ£i aparÅ£ine. PoÅ£i munci visând, sau amintindu-Å£i, sau gândind. Numai munca s?vârÅŸit? întru împlinirea unei vocaÅ£ii, ÅŸi în primul rând scrisul, pentru c? procesul lui e cel mai complicat, numai aceast? munc? te confisc? definitiv. Numai actul creaÅ£iei îÅ£i cere aceast? jertf?...

De aceea am plecat pe front, pentru c? ÅŸtiam c? altminteri, dac? nu mor acolo, va fi mult mai grav, voi afla într-o zi, c?, pentru tine, am murit de mult...

ÅŸi v?zui un zbârc roÅŸ, Voia sângele s? i-l beie, Zilele s? i le ieie, Nici sângele n-ai s? i-l bei, C? eu cu acul oi descânta Cu m?tura oi m?tura, În trestie l-oi b?ga, Åži-n Dun?re l-oi arunca Åži Sanda de-acum o r?mânea Curat?!...

This idea finds its echo today in the conception that nothing can be created without the sacrifice of something very important, usually one's own being. Every vocation implies the supreme sacrifice of the self.

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.

Digo bien si digo que en este momento las mujeres estamos preguntándonos cuál es nuestra prioridad y qué está bien, si proteger a nuestras hijas o entrar en el Reino de los Cielos?

I'd made "Fever" Mom's ring tone because the song was about getting the flu from being too close to someone. I thought it was a good choice because she holds me tight and kisses me all the time and she's always blowing her nose on me and it makes me sick and gives me fever—but now I wasn't sure it was the right ring tone after all. I didn't want to have a sexy ring tone for Mom on my cellphone!

Notice that, in making ourselves available, we are not doing God any favors. We give ourselves for God's use to benefit creation, not to benefit God.

In the final analysis, the only available options are either to reject the cross and with it the core of the Christian faith or to take up one's cross, follow the Crucified-and be scandalized ever anew by the challenge.

To give to God is to take from God's right hand and put that very thing back into God's left hand.

Living toward a world in which these identities no longer divide, but living in a world fundamentally structured by them, Paul takes up and lays down various identities for the sake of the gospel. Though free, he has made himself a slave. For the sake of the gospel, he lives sometimes as one under the Jewish law, other times as one free from it—all while recognizing the truth of his situation as one no longer under "the law" but nevertheless under "Christ's law.

I will die for my God. I will die for my faith. It's the least I can do for Christ dying for me.

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.

Sacrfice, the captain said. You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.

And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? Ah he smiled. A happiness you cannot find alone

I shot you, all right, he said, and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too. What? I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.

You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. That's the thing. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

You really loved her?' 'I would have given my life.' 'Would you have taken it?' 'No, child,' he said. 'That is not ours to do.

You're not getting it, Eddie gently replied. I needed to save you. It let me make up for the life I took. That's how salvation works. The wrongs we do open doors to do right.

Do not cry for losing blood. Not for something you love.

Sacrifice," The Captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.