Everywhere I’ve turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her...

One way to show such sacrifice and resolve would be to agree to shift [to Katrina relief] at least half of the $25 billion that the recently enacted highway bill dedicates to frivolous pork-barrel spending.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.

…often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams

Wait,” said Butler. “Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan.” He squinted through the green dome. “What is your plan, Artemis?”All Artemis could do was smile and shrug.

No sacrifices, no sacks of rice

I know human nature. We might sacrifice a few, because we are stupid and hardwired for group survival. But we would never die in the thousands because a god wished it. Those kinds of numbers...

It’s one thing to have a goal, but it’s quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and...

The pain we feel in separation is the price we pay for love.

The satyagrahi enters the jail cell as the bridegroom enters the bridal chamber

Inner joy enables you to choose to look beyond your pain and make your praise a sacrifice to God.

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?

I remembered suddenly that Aspen had always been this way. He sacrificed sleep for me, he risked getting caught out after curfew for me, he scrounged together pennies for me. Aspen’s generosity was harder to...

These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered himself for one without any lot. All else were struck with...

In the final analysis, with Rene she had been an apprentice to love, she had loved him only to learn how to give herself, enslaved and surfeited, to Sir Stephen.

To sacrifice anything is of great honor. To sacrifice everything is of God.

than watch them destroy you because of me.

He is my brother,” I said. “I cannot desert him.””You can go to your own death,” William said. “Or you can survive this, bring up your children, and guard Anne’s little girl who will be...

If you feel very deeply about something, it’s not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

What moved me was the theme of the harmony which is born only of sacrifice, the twofold experience of love. It’s not a question of mutual love: what nobody seems to understand is that love...

Life is one sick joke after another, I’m discovering. Because it hardly seems fair that it should hurt so much to finally get exactly what I’ve been wishing for.

Your Sacrifices Create The Run Way For Your Blessings, It Has To Be A Sacrifice From You To Attract God’s Attention

To live safely within the realm of possibility is to know nothing other than that which is possible. To live boldly within the realm of God is to experience everything that’s impossible.

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

And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.

It was easy to make fun of the marines when they weren’t listening. In Holden’s navy days, making fun of jarheads was as natural as cussing. But four marines had died getting him off the...

That alone would be Eddie’s triumph in all this; that she had taught the kelpie suffering.

Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the ‘wee ones,’ because there are little children and big children. All people are ‘wee ones.’ And I’ll go for all of them, because there must...

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice,” said she. — “In not one of all my clever replies, my delicate negatives, is there any allusion to making a sacrifice. I...

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.

Often I’ve wondered what it would feel like to be him,” he whispered softly. “To feel the warmth of your skin under my cold hand or your hot breath on my lips. These last few...

Build Icebergs, Not Skyscrapers

If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ’s transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.

There are greater things to be achieved in every new year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by alot of sacrifices.

I cry, sometimes, because I’m not 20 years younger, and I’m not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

My heart is eternally yours, but my soul will always be hell bound.

Why you keep telling me to be careful, Old man ?Your stupidity doesn’t deserve my sacrifice, Kiddo.

How queerly they dress!

What are you prepared to give for your dream? If it is not everything…stop pipe dreaming.

If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was:...

Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious

I don’t mind loosing when the other person need for winning is more than mine…..

A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids.

Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul.