Quotes about Sacrifice

And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.

Fish, the old man said. Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

Do you want to keep your knee, young man?' 'No', I said. 'What?' 'I want it cut off,' I said, 'so I can wear a hook on it.

Some say that in writing you can never possess anything until you have given it away or, if you are in a hurry, you may have to throw it away.

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother. Come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who. Now

How many people will he feed, he thought. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behaviour and his great dignity.

We all ought to make sacrifices for literature.

She said that nothing is done to oneself that one does not accept and that if I love someone it would take it all away. What

When you love, you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.

He who serves the most grows the fastest.