Quotes about Sacrifice

Tell me how on God's green earth we can dare offer salvation to a dying world when we're so busy shooting our own wounded.

Every God demands sacrifice. What sacrifice does your God require?' 'Obedience.

If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.

He will forgive you, but he won't remove the consequences... We must learn to obey

Angel lay in the darkness after Meribah left and worked over what she had said. Mama had worked to keep Alex Stafford's love alive. She had tried everything to please him and keep his passion alive. Angel wondered now if it hadn't been those very efforts that served to drive him away. Mama had been so hungry for his love. Her entire life had revolved around Alex Stafford's coming to the small cottage. Her happiness depended solely on him. It had been an obsession.

He received gold because he was a King, frankincense because he was the High Priest for all men, and myrrh because he would die for the sins of the world.

Only later did he remember his pride-and the shattering cost of an illusive sense of freedom.

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

Falling in love meant you lost control of your emotions and your will and your life. It meant you lost yourself.

Right now love doesn't have an awful lot to do with feelings

You'll have to bury me. His heart lightened. All right, he said. We'll baptize you.

She didn't make life easy on those who loved her, but she was worth it.