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Remember, there's sacrifice invovled in any kind of life. Even the man who chooses the safe way has to give up the thrill of combat. The point is that once you know what you want, you must be prepared to sacrifice everything to get it. Those who realize this are the fortunate ones. Those who know and can try. What more can a man as kfor than that?
— John Allyn, The 47 Ronin Story
How can I make you the vessel of the Void? What kind of love would that be?""The greatest kind of all.
— Sara Ella, Unblemished
The greatest sacrifice a man can make is the image of his soul.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Disciples of Fortune
Elfangor laughed in my mind. "You don't have to give up your principles to win. Isn't there always an alternative to sacrifice if you just keep your mind clear, and step back, and see it, and..."
— K. A. Applegate
Elfangor laughed in my mind. "Victory without sacrifice? You know better than that.""You don't have to give up your principles to win. Isn't there always an alternative to sacrifice if you just keep your mind clear, and step back, and see it, and...""You know better than that.
— K. A. Applegate
When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never had it, I wanted, or I partly wanted, to give it back. All my life I continued to feel that bliss for me would have to imply my mother's deprivation or sacrifice. I don't think it would have occurred to her what a double emotion I felt. I could hardly bear my pleasure for the guilt. There is no wonder that a passion for independence sprang up in me at the earliest age. It took me a long time to manage the independence, (but) I have never managed to handle the guilt. In the act and the course of writing stories, these are the two springs, one bright, one dark, that feed the stream.
— Eudora Welty, On Writing
The church the Bible described is exciting and adventurous and wrought with sacrifice. It cost believers everything, and they still came.
— Jen Hatmaker, 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
How great is the love of God! He loved me long before I knew His name. He wooed me, chased me, enthralled me, and captured my heart. He didn’t prove His love at a candlelight dinner. There were no long-stemmed roses, but there were thorns. Yes, there were thorns.
— Katherine J Walden
Believe me, it is quite unnecessary! I neither know nor care what it cost to redeem Lufra—and if you badger me on this very boring matter I shall not invite you to go with me when I try out my new team!”There was a moment’s tense silence; then Jessamy raised his eyes, no longer glowing, but uncomfortably austere. “Very well, sir,” he said quietly. “Will you tell me, if you please, what I owe you?”“No, young Stiff-rump! I will not!
— Georgette Heyer, Frederica
We suffer these things and they fade form memory. But daily, hourly, to give up our own possessions and especially to subordinate our own impulses and wishes to to others - these are hard, hard things; and I don't think they ever get any easier.You can strip yourself, you can be stripped, but still you will reach out like an octopus to seek your own comfort, your untroubled time, your ease, your refreshment. It may mean books or music - the gratification of the inner sense - or it may mean food and drink, coffee and cigarettes. The one kind of giving up is no easier than the other.
— Dorothy Day, The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus
Resolution demands a sacrifice.
— Stephen King
Stay up building your empire if you must, cut all negative ties if you must, sacrifice some things if you must, but above all, never forget the reason why you wanted to be successful.
— Kabelo Mabona
All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immortality, to keep them ahead of the extinction that would ensue in a few generations if the species did not replenish itself. This is the implicit, and most pestiferous, rationale for propagation: to become fully integrated into a society, one must offer it fresh blood. Naturally, the average set of parents does not conceive of their conception as a sacrificial act. These are civilized human beings we are talking about, and thus they are quite able to fill their heads with a panoply of less barbaric rationales for reproduction, among them being the consolidation of a spousal relationship; the expectation of new and enjoyable experiences in the parental role; the hope that one will pass the test as a mother or father; the pleasing of one’s own parents, not to forget their parents and possibly a great-grandparent still loitering about; the serenity of taking one’s place in the seemingly deathless lineage of a familial enterprise; the creation of individuals who will care for their paternal and maternal selves in their dotage; the quelling of a sense of guilt or selfishness for not having done their duty as human beings; and the squelching of that faint pathos that is associated with the childless. Such are some of the overpowering pressures upon those who would fertilize the future. These pressures build up in people throughout their lifetimes and must be released, just as everyone must evacuate their bowels or fall victim to a fecal impaction. And who, if they could help it, would suffer a building, painful fecal impaction? So we make bowel movements to relieve this pressure. Quite a few people make gardens because they cannot stand the pressure of not making a garden. Others commit murder because they cannot stand the pressure building up to kill someone, either a person known to them or a total stranger. Everything is like that. Our whole lives consist of metaphorical as well as actual bowel movements, one after the other. Releasing these pressures can have greater or lesser consequences in the scheme of our lives. But they are all pressures, all bowel movements of some kind. At a certain age, children are praised for making a bowel movement in the approved manner. Later on, the praise of others dies down for this achievement and our bowel movements become our own business, although we may continue to praise ourselves for them. But overpowering pressures go on governing our lives, and the release of these essentially bowel-movement pressures may once again come up for praise, congratulations, and huzzahs of all kinds.
— Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
And for the first time, I pity her, because when she says love, I think she really means it. For her, this is love. This is what she does to someone she loves. And I wonder if I am any better, because this is what I did to Zan all those rotations ago. I seduced her until she loved me with all her heart, and when it came time to do what needed to be done, I was willing to sacrifice that love, but she was not.
— Kameron Hurley, The Stars Are Legion
While I do believe we are loved even when we do not make the sacrifices we could make, I think part of this life is learning to love what we are capable of.
— Ashley Mae Hoiland, One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly: The Art of Seeking God
[regarding the sacrifice] It was all very professionally done, even to a man whose religion consisted mostly of half formed and unanswered questions, it was strangely reassuring.
— Ruth Downie, Semper Fidelis
The only things I truly keep are those things that I give away.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
…victory that comes from the sacrifice on an innocent isn’t a victory. It’s the end of us.
— Claudia Gray, Defy the Stars
The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."pg 337
— Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
Only through sacrifice can Genesis survive.
— Claudia Gray, Defy the Stars
If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I have in that question revealed the need to ‘return’ that question to wherever I found it and have the word ‘return’ edited out of it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
There is a personal sacrifice required to realize God’s passion
— Sunday Adelaja
Whatever a person wants to sacrifice for God will be multiplied many times over by God will be multiplied many times over by God for that person
— Sunday Adelaja
Whoever is willing to sacrifice his life for God will always be under God’s protection
— Sunday Adelaja
For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary
— Sunday Adelaja
...the true value of an offering isn't measured by how much we give. It's measured by how much we keep...By definition, a sacrifice must involve sacrifice...
— Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
The difference between the old Testament and the new testament is that God doesn’t want sacrifices anymore
— Sunday Adelaja
The most benevolent souls are the one's who have had to drink some of life's worst poisons, yet protected others in their lives from ever having to taste them.
— José N. Harris
Given the choice between one lifetime spent with you or a thousand without, I will always choose you.
— Danielle L. Jensen, Stolen Songbird
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Put your Isaac on the altar! Then, and only then, will you see what God can do. He cannot give back what you do not give up. But if you surrender yourself to Him, He will provide the ram in the thicket.
— Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
We can understand why one of the titles given to Jesus is that of ‘prophet.’ Jesus is the last and greatest of the prophets, the one who sums them up and goes further than all of them. He is the prophet of the last, but also of the best, chance. With him there takes place a shift that is both tiny and gigantic – a shift that follows on directly from the Old Testament but constitutes a decisive break as well. This is the complete elimination of the sacrificial for the first time – the end of divine violence and the explicit revelation of all that has gone before. It calls for a complete change of emphasis and a spiritual metamorphosis without precedent in the whole history of mankind. It also amounts to an absolute simplification of the relations between human beings, in so far as all the false differences between doubles are annulled – a simplification in the sense in which we speak of an algebraic simplification.Throughout the texts of the Old Testament it was impossible to conclude the deconstruction of myths, rituals and law since the plenary revelation of the founding murder had not yet taken place. The divinity may be to some extent stripped of violence, but not completely so. That is why there is still an indeterminate and indistinct future, in which the resolution of the problem by human means alone – the face-to-face reconciliation that ought to result when people are alerted to the stupidity and uselessness of symmetrical violence – remains confused to a certain extent with the hope of a new epiphany of violence that is distinctively divine in origin, a ‘Day of Yahweh’ that would combine the paroxysm of God’s anger with a no less God-given reconciliation. However remarkably the prophets progress toward a precise understanding of what it is that structures religion and culture, the Old Testament never tips over into the complete rationality that would dispense with this hope of a purgation by violence and would give up requiring God to take the apocalyptic solution by completely liquidating the ‘evil’ in order to ensure the happiness of the chosen.
— René Girard, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
The motto above the lintel of the main entrance was in the raised script of the prayer language: My life for a thousand.She remembered swearing an oath with that at its core: My life for yours, for ours, for Nasheen. My life for a thousand.
— Kameron Hurley, God's War
I gladly sacrifice pear-shaped tones in favor of down-to-earth emotion.
— Oliver
It was not in her nature to stop short at half-measures, not to pause when once she had fixed her purpose. If she ever trembled on looking forward to the utter ruin she was about to encounter, her second emotion was to despise herself for such pusillanimity, and to be roused to renewed energy.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lodore
Life tries you at a time whether you want to follow your dreams or you want to fulfill your desires!No doubts path to the dreams is tough one and tiresome yet more valuable.
— raja shakeel mushtaque
I shouldn't have survived - it was my destiny to die - even Dumbledore thought so - and yet i lived. I beat Voldemort. All these people - all these people - my parents, Fred, the Fallen Fifty - and it's me that gets to live? how is that? All this damage - and it's my fault.
— Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
For the greater good":the phrase that always precedesthe greatest evil.
— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice
— Anonymous
It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.
— Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
Giving is normal and anybody can give but to sacrifice during giving is the matter!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
I have found the more worthwhile something is, the more of your life is required to achieve it.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
I mean it, it’s another gap in your education. Until you can learn to understand her, you’ll get nowhere as a detective. She’s everybody’s conscience, Bob—the universal maiden aunt, cousin or sister. Humanity’s backbone. Throughout history, she’s gone to the stake for you again and again; not with any sense of heroism, but as a matter of principle and because it would never occur to her to do anything else.
— Heron Carvic, Picture Miss Seeton
Sometimes you sacrifice too much. You find yourself out on a limb and not knowing really quite how to get back down the tree. But it’s the space that you’re in because you have taken the risk. I’m not unaware of the sacrifices and, at times, whom your compassion hurts. It’s not all moving in one direction. It’s complicated, as the work is complicated.
— Carrie Mae Weems
And so she cut out her heart and offered it as a sacrifice. She would pay whatever price her mother Wallachia demanded.“Make me prince,” she said without feeling.
— Kiersten White, And I Darken
I must send you into exile, that you may be the coal of her heart. No real thing can be so perfect as memory, and she will need a perfect thing if she is to survive. She will warm herself on the memory of you when there is nothing else, and be sustained.
— Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char
Hard-work, perseverance and sacrifices will guide you to success.Being reckless, lazy and wayward will drag you to the pit.
— moolesh.k.dindoyal
And at once he sacrificed everything to it, if it can be said we ever sacrifice anything save what we know we can never attain, or what some secret wisdom tells us it would be uncomfortable or saddening to possess.
— Thornton Wilder
But SACRIFICE does not mean 'death' at all. It means MAKING HOLY
— Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning