Quotes About Sacrifice

Find something you love - and let it kill you

It's not pleasant to die on the cross, it's much more pleasant to hear your name whispered in the dark.

Find what you love and let it kill you. - Charles Bukowski

For aught known to the contrary, the good farmers of Yorkshire are, in a great measure, indebted to the bones of their children for their daily bread.

In this way the sacred mission of the Triple Alliance became translated into a secular mission: to obtain prisoners to sacrifice for the sun, the Alliance had to take over the world.

Crosses release us from this world, and by doing so, bind us to God. —Charles de Foucauld

he has discovered that the will of God is not to hate, not to torture, not to cast away from his presence, but to restore his creatures to goodness, that he may thereby restore them to usefulness.  David has discovered that God demands no sacrifice, much less self-torturing penance.  What he demands is the heart.  The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit.  A broken and a contrite heart he will not despise. 

Each man kills the thing he loves. The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword.

He picked up one of Lorna's roses and set it in my lap. Here. I picked it up and smelled it. He poked me in the shoulder. See what I mean? Thorns don't stop you from sniffing. Or putting them in a vase on the kitchen table. You work around them.... Cause the rose is worth it... Think what you'd miss.

love is worth doing. No matter how much it hurts.

You are a sinner, a great, desperate sinner; now come, as the sinner that you are to God who loves you. He wants you as you are; he does not want anything from you, a sacrifice, a work; he wants you alone. " —LIFE TOGETHER

El amor que asciende es adoración; el amor que sale es afecto; pero el amor que se inclina es gracia».3

Dear God, I know that my sin has put a barrier between You and me. Thank You for sending Your Son, Jesus, to suffer the penalty of my sin by dying in my place so that barrier would be removed. I trust in Jesus alone for the forgiveness of my sins.

We see the same scenario all too often today. People are told the good news of salvation by grace alone, only to respond with, "That's too simple. Where's the dignity? Where's the effort? If it's all that life changing, surely something sacrificial is required of me!

The offering had been meager, the miracle dramatic, and the provision abundant, but the lesson was not yet complete.

Why should He have to suffer on behalf of humanity? Nomoral imperative required God to sacrifice His Son. He would be no less holy or righteous if He allowed the race of sin-sick humans to suffer the just consequences of their own rebellion. Nothing compelled Jesus to complete the mission—nothing, that is, except love for the people He had made and obedience to His Father.

This should serve as a warning to anyone who thinks that God will accept anything we choose to bring as long as we're sincere.

Faith is doing what God tells us to do, even when His instructions appear dangerous or might cause us to experience loss or suffering.

Executions are a form of human sacrifice, after all

I can get you a cheaper ticket if you let me amputate your legs: I can even take your thighs as a deposit," said the travel agent.

Starships are all work and no fun.

There will be plenty of backup and support, but she's still going to have to do heartbreaking things to people who probably don't understand why the pale woman with the bone-white violin and blood dripping from her fingertips is coming for them.

you young ones . . ." 'Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country has ever done for you?

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