I’ve met so many people of my son’s generation who think a sacrifice is when their satellite or Internet is out for a day and that the country owes them something. That old J.F.K. quote...

If you do not need something that it is still useful, give it to someone who will appreciate it before you douse it in lighter fluid in hopes Santa Odin will put a new one...

The quintessential emblem of religion and the clearest manifestation of the perversity that lies at its core is the sacrifice of a child by a parent.Almost all religious faiths incorporate the myth of such a...

I wish to be buried in Ireland, the country of my adoption a country which I loved, which I have dutifully served, and for which I believe I have sacrificed my life.

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

Don’t sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past… It’s gone! Learn from it and move on…

An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.

I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire...

To follow Christ requires a downward career track that does not depend on dollars or status. Instead, what matters is Christ.

Look at his track record. How does he do it? He just has an air about him. Players respect him. They know he’s been successful wherever he’s been. So they are willing to make the...

My father sacrificed his life for our family when I was growing up. He was one of the bravest, wisest, and most unselfish goats I have ever known, and I will miss his cheese dearly.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

I’ll do it. Anything. Whatever it takes.

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.

It is a great priviledge to hear from the mouth of an initiate what struggles we are ensnared in and what the meaning is of the sacrifices we are required to make before veiled images....

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

Overoptimism Is More Dangerous Than Overpessimism

Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. 

…my mind drifted to my family. I thought about how I had the opportunity to serve them. I didn’t have to carry them across a freezing river in the middle of a snowstorm or give...

Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything – even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.

Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who’s willing...

My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave… Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.

Alice will always be a beautiful mystery. It is one I am content not to solve.I can love her now in her lovely darkness.” -Amalia Milthorpe

Drizzt looked long and hard at the young woman, tje dedicated warrior, and he understood that Danica, too, had been forced into a great sacrifice because of Cadderly’s choice. He sensed an anger within her,...

And Pantalaimon didn’t ask why, because he knew; and he didn’t ask whether Lyra loved Roger more than him, because he knew the true answer to that, too. And he knew that if he spoke,...

In sharp contrast with our culture, the Bible teaches that the essence of marriage is a sacrificial commitment to the good of the other. That means that love is more fundamentally action than emotion. But...

Vengeance cannot abide the agony of grace.

Blood fills my mouth. Fire sears my veins. I choke back a howl. The silver knife slips–thechoice is mine.I am death or life. I am salvation or destruction. Angel or demon.I am grace.I plunge in...

In times like these, a journalist’s contribution to his country is measured in terms of illustrious commitment and sacrifice, … There was no one more devoted to his calling than David Bloom and for that...

There’s something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good.

If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they’d love you more.

I’ll walk through the fireWith my head lifted highAnd my spirit revivedIn Your story

Patriotism is a tricky way that neutralizes the life instinct — Eros; you give your life as a sacrifice for others who never share even their wealth with you. The irony is that even their...

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

She made a sound of regret. ‘We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,’ she said. ‘Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.’She placed her head back against his...

I’ve been thinking of something your father said – that the true measure of love is what one is willing to give up for it. He was talking about freedom – fighting for liberty. But...

Maybe that’s what love is—sacrificing yourself to save another, taking the insult or taking the hit.

For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food. In my distress, I groan aloud and am reduced...

Today we are getting part of the payoff of your sacrifice, by seeing the last settlers leaving Gaza. The credit for the evacuation is for you and for the martyrs who sacrificed themselves and gave...

Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does...

Have you ever stopped to ponder the amount of blood spilt, the volume of tears shed, the degree of pain and anguish endured, the number of noble men and women lost in battle so that...

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its...

It’s a shame how much artists have to bleed for people to enjoy their work.

Was it permitted to believe that there was nowhere upon the earth, or above the earth, a heaven for hogs, where they were requited for all this suffering? Each one of these hogs was a...

We sacrifice our potential because we do not know that we are pure potential.

You know you love something if you’re willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” How often I think of that ‘ought.’ No sugary...

The underlying logic of sacrifice was always the same: In order to gain the god’s goodwill, destroy what you value most.

If I am always standing at the bottom of the mountain longingly looking up, in all probability it is because I have heeded the pillaging dogma of mediocrity which persistently tells me that the dream...