Quotes About Sacrifice

What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.

marriage meant offering daily salvation to a man standing on the gallows

Mulai sekarang, lupakan diriku. Jangan pernah merasa bersalah, karena jika kau tidak merasa bahagia, maka semua usahaku akan sia-sia.

Rich and very rich people have developed the discipline of delayed gratification. Millionaires do today what others don't, so they can have tomorrow what others won't.

Love makes us do wicked things.

I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them.

Los británicos, al igual que los estadounidenses, recuerdan la Segunda Guerra Mundial como una época en la que su mejor generación salvó al mundo de la maldad del nazismo.

Love is two blind people sword fighting, love is a queen on a desert island, love is self-immolation, love is running scared in the dark, love is two people each of whose saliva is poison for the other, love is an empty house, a sunken boat, a crippled dancer.

It was said six hundred years ago by a great man. He said, 'They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Tell me which you could sooner do without, love or water." "What do you mean?" "I mean, could you live without love, or could you live without water?" "Why can't I have both?

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

In the Canadiens' dressing room, on a wall above the players' lockers, is a line from John McCrae's poem, "In Flanders Fields." It reads: To you from failing hands we throw the torch, be yours to hold it high.

As for the Wings, I wanted to tighten some already painfully tight screws, to force on them the kind of cruel question no one should have to answer: am I willing to go through what surely I must, for something I will surely never get?

It is easy to say that a fan can stay at home, or at home he can change a channel and watch something else. But it isn't as simple as that. A sports fan loves his sport. A fan in Toronto loves hockey, and if the Leafs are bad, he loses something he loves and has no way to replace the loss.

And here's my advice to you. If you get the chance of the mad kind of love, grab it with both hands, and to hell with the consequences.

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

Those that entered the ark in pairs were for the purpose of repopulating their kind after the Flood. This is why the female is paired with it. But the sacrificial clean animals were obviously not required to go in pairs as they had no mates and their function was not to keep their kinds alive after the Flood (Genesis 7:36). Sacrifice costs the sacrificer something. If not, it really isn't a sacrifice. King David later recognized this (2 Samuel 24:24

No one was innocent in the sight of God anyway. Now imagine the cannibalism, rape, murder, child sacrifice, and so on. Yet God was patient. He gave a 120-year countdown to the Flood (Genesis 6:313) and even sent a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:514).

How many children were alive at the time of the Flood? When a civilization becomes evil, who usually pays the price first? It is the children and babies. How many ancient cultures killed or sacrificed children? Far too many! In the Bible, we find evil people like Pharaoh of Egypt trying to kill baby boys through the midwives when they were born.

This is what we see in our own modern secular culture where millions of babies are aborted (murdered through child sacrifice) every year through state-funded organizations like Planned Parenthood! The population of the USA has lost over 55 million people to abortion since the Supreme Court permitted the murder of babies in 1973 (and counting).

The Lord sacrificed animals to cover this sin. It was not enough to take away sin, but merely offered a temporary covering. This shows how much more valuable mankind is than animals (see also Matthew 6:269, 12:1210).

Like a lot of common sense, they may seem obvious but they are wrong. The creative capacities of generations of people have been sacrificed needlessly to an academic illusion.

Real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you.

U ovih 6 mjeseci odkako je u Indiji svaki put kad vidi lj bi?a da služe kao tegle?a gotovo kao sami nosa?i gkao da smatraju da je to posao kao i svaki drugi, a Amir ju je upozorio da bi suvišna obazrivost dovela jedino do toga da ostanu bez hljeba. Napola uvjerena pomirila se sa tim pokušavaju?i osmjesima i nagradama da ublaži svoj osje?aj krivice.