Quotes about Sacrifice

You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesnt mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.

Where is Shelby, whom you left to the mercies of Elias in the desert, and where is Tate whom you abandoned in the mountains? Where are the ladies, ah the fair and tender ladies with whom you danced at the governor's ball when you were a hero anointed with the blood of the enemies of the republic you'd elected to defend? -Cormac mcCarthy, Blood Meridian

I was valuing my survival more than sharing my faith.

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

But, Lord, if it is Thy will that I should love him, make me love him - as Christ would, who died for the souls of men. Make me love him splendidly, because he is Thy son.

Well, if one had to prostitute oneself, let it be to a bitch-goddess!

Then she fell into that rapture of self-sacrifice, identifying herself with a God who was sacrificed, which gives to so many human souls their deepest bliss.

For some things, said his aunt, it was a good thing Paul was ill that Christmas. I believe it saved his mother. Paul

When I give, I give myself

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

Lord, I do not know fully what the value of the blood is, but I know that the blood has satisfied Thee; so the blood is enough for me, and it is my only plea.

If you have not experienced the death of self, your spiritual life will have little real progress.