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Quotes About Blood

They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?
~ Qur'an 2 30
After Jesus, the next group of people with the most innocent blood are the millions of unborn babies who were aborted with never even a chance at life, much less the chance to make a choice between good or evil. Leviticus 17:11 says that life is in the blood. And innocent shed blood cries out to God. What kind of cry do you think the blood of 44 million innocent babies aborted in the womb makes? What does that sound like to God?
~ James W. Goll
The blood feuds of today's Ulster— and their legacy in the journey of America's Scots-Irish— have their roots in a decision made in 1610 by King James I of England, who also reigned as James VI of Scotland, to form a Protestant plantation on Irish soil.
~ James Webb
Why is the raw body so unloved when it's out-loud? Just veins, blood, what we're made of?
~ Jan Beatty
Mildred was old-fashioned in a lot of ways, but family wasn't one of them. Blood didn't make someone love you. It didn't make someone treat you right.
~ Jana Deleon
He grinned widely, and James saw that blood was dripping from his fangs.
~ Janice Harrell
The miracle left him dumbfounded, that his heart had not yet shirked its weary task of pumping his bored blood through his brain.
~ Janny Wurts
Men have the bloods of their fathers and the passions of their mothers, in the same sense that women have the bloods of their mothers and the passions of their fathers. We often find ourselves trapped in life when we fail to balance the two. The most unusual of men are those who are haunted by the warped bloods of their fathers and the untamed passions of their mothers. They become either the legends of the legends mankind lives to remember or they end up as the fools of their time,"
~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Without Christ, we're in Satan's grip. But because of His great love for us, Jesus shed His blood and died to redeem us from our sins, giving us full forgiveness. He rose
~ Dr. David Jeremiah
Just as certainly as the false gods of paganism demanded the bloody sacrifice of children, so the idolatrous ideologies demand blood. Push any ideology far enough and you will find violence, murder, mayhem, and genocide. This is because idealogues live for an idea—they do not live for life—and any ideology that does not put life first will invariably put it last.
~ Dwight Longenecker
wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers.
~ e e cummings
here's to one undiscoverable guess of whose mad skill each world of blood is made (whose fatal songs are moving in the moon
~ E.E. Cummings
As much as I enjoy a fight, I cannot always indulge myself, and just now I had more weighty matters to occupy my time than spilling the blood of strange warriors.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
You can be at all fronts, wherever there is grief, in the power of the cross. Your compassionate love takes you everywhere, this love from the divine heart. Its precious blood is poured everywhere, soothing, healing, saving.
~ Edith Stein
When they smile, I see blood trickling down their faces; I see their insidious purposes; I see that the object of all their cajoling is—blood! I now warn my countrymen to beware of these execrable philosophers, whose only object it is to destroy every thing that is good here, and to establish immorality and murder by precept and example—'Hic niger est hunc tu Romane caveto' ['Such a man is evil; beware of him, Roman'. Horace, Satires I. 4. 85.].
~ Edmund Burke
A healer! The beauty of the word a balm. In a mounting astonishment she hears how this man heals with his own blood, pricks his own finger, rubs the blood onto the scab, smears it all over the patient
~ Edna O'Brien
They have decided to chance it, the healer's farm being only twenty miles off the main road and in her now, gusts of hope, the morbid gloom of earlier brushed away. Something so sacred about this man using his own blood, as did the Savior.
~ Edna O'Brien
Do not take Vigilante if you are suffering from high blood pressure, low blood pressure, or normal blood pressure. Consult physician if you experience chest pains, swollen eyelids, elongated ears. . .
~ Edward St. Aubyn
There is something about uncleanness that asks for blood.
~ Edward T. Welch
Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood.
~ Edwidge Danticat
There was probably so much blood being shed in different parts of the country that morning, the blood of militiamen at the hands of former victims, the blood of former victims at the hands of militiamen battling for their lives. Maybe the water could be a cleansing offering to the gods on behalf of all the dead, no matter what their political leaning had been.
~ Edwidge Danticat
I thought we were losing the habit of wars," Eunice said glumly, stooping to adjust one of the irrigation lines running into her plant beds. "We are, slowly." Chiku took a seat. "But it's still in our blood, like some fucking horrible disease we're still carrying around with us.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
siempre es lo mismo: los que sufren de injusticia dan la sangre por los que sufren de injusticia. Esto me es insoportable.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik