Sacrifice Quotes - Page 3

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be.

Taggle looked up at her, his amber eyes as deep as the loneliness Kate had felt before he became her friend.
"The traditional thing," he said slowly, "involves the river and a sack.

The men stop coming after Hunt goes missing. We learned from the last brave soul to visit that they whispered all sorts of stories to answer his disappearance. My favorite is that we ate him. We cooked him up with our whore-earned corn, a dozen rats’ eyes, and a bat wing.

Even I couldn’t have thought of anything more perfect.

People of God are always people who care about other people and it always comes at some cost.

Jesus teaches us to give richly, serve sacrificially, and love unconditionally.

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

I didn’t sacrifice everything for love, just my mother when love required a caesarian.

If the ultimate goal is lasting love, women are going to have to become comfortable with sacrifice and capitulation. Because those are the underpinnings of a long-term marriage – for both sexes.

Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation.

This is the one who will find us. He's the one who will lead them all back to me someday. He's the explorer. El curioso.

True biblical love is sacrificing, purifying, nurturing, and enduring.

Serving others means being willing to make sacrifices for their good.

You didn't judge my past. That's when I knew I couldn't turn away from you even if I tried...

The morning I drove by and saw you alone, staring at the house. I told myself to keep on driving, but something told me to stop. And when I'd seen how lost and confused you were, something told me I was meant to be there....
I was meant to be there so I could help you find your way

Depression is evil. Before you know it, it takes over and there's no escaping it.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.