quotations about sacrifice
Sacrifice is always about life directed to the person in control of human life. The fact that humans cannot spontaneously, technologically, or mechanically produce life makes life itself the prime natural symbol of gift--life always comes from another.
BRUCE J. MALINA
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The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology
Fundamentally, to sacrifice is to have power. This power may take many forms. Animal and human sacrifice, of course, include the literal power over life and death. But sacrifice is also primarily about material power. To sacrifice is both to have something of one's own -- be it created, earned, given, or purchased -- and the ability to destroy it. It is, in essence, a display of possession, ownership, and control.
NICOLE J. RUANE
Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law
When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
How difficult it is to get men to balance a present sacrifice with a future advantage! How hard to induce them to wish an end, and not hesitate at the means! How many mingle together means and ends, rejoicing in the first without having the other before their eyes. We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
attributed, Day's Collacon
It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
DONALD MILLER
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
As we live
Moving side by side
May we learn to give
Learn to sacrifice
MICHAEL W. SMITH
"Give It Away"
Long long way
Between sin and sacrifice
DEVILDRIVER
"Sin & Sacrifice"
No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
VAUVENARGUES
attributed, Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopedia of Quotations
I was going to be rich no matter how much it cost
And I was going to win no matter how much I lost
Grindstones and rhinestones have made up my life
But I've shined like a diamond through sacrifice
DOLLY PARTON
"The Sacrifice"
Faith is best realized in sacrifice.
MADAME SWETCHINE
The Writings of Madame Swetchine
Majesty, wonderful
Holy Lord, Emmanuel
Prince of Peace, Righteous One
Sacrifice, Crowned as King
HILLSONG UNITED
"Father, I"
Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.
MITCH ALBOM
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
No one can make sacrifice for another, without establishing a new bond of interest between them.
ELON FOSTER
New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations
To make a sacrifice is putting words into meaning. You don't have to have a Medal of Honor to make a difference by doing the right thing.
DREW DIX
"Sacrifice and service the theme of Pueblo's 9/11 ceremony", The Pueblo Chieftain, September 11, 2017
The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE
"Seventh Dialogue", St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
You say you wanna sacrifice
You say the words too easily
To know just what you mean
BLACK WIDOW
"Sacrifice"
There isn't much I wouldn't do for you. The stupider, the better.
RICHELLE MEAD
Last Sacrifice
In addition to the fact that life is daily sacrificed for the sustentation of life, the belief of a higher sacrifice would seem to be one of man's most unconquerable instincts.
THOMAS RAGG
attributed, Day's Collacon
Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Flight to Arras