#sacrifice

…he felt he could willingly give his life for them. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#life

God knows we’re all drawn toward what’s beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it’s only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the giver. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#beautiful-disaster #broken #depressed #love #sacrifice

We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat. ↗

— John Warner

#communities #day #defeat #delay #ever

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. ↗

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#any #become #could #important #important thing

If I – as a beneficiary of that exact formula – will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by that precise familial structure, will the social conservatives please (for once!) concede that this arrangement has always put a disproportionately cumbersome burden on women? Such a system demands that mothers become selfless to the point of near invisibility in order to construct these exemplary encironments for their families. And might those same social conservatives – instead of just praising mothers as “sacred” and “noble” – be willing to someday join a larger conversation about how we might work together as a society to construct a world where healthy children can be raised and healthy families can prosper without women have to scrape bare the walls of their own souls to do so? ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#sacrifice #family

I’m nothing, here. A lowly surveillance analyst. Being the hero could have meant something good for me. Could have changed my whole life. I could have done it. I should have done it. I sat there and I thought about you, instead. ↗

— Julio-Alexi Genao

#sacrifice #change

Being others-focused instead of self-focused changes your worldview. Living in a selfless manner and seeking to help others enriches our very existence on a daily basis. Get your hands dirty once in a while by serving in a capacity that is lower than your position or station in life. This keeps you tethered to the real world and grounded to reality, which should make it harder to be prideful and forget where you came from. ↗

— Miles Anthony Smith

#leadership #quotes-to-live-by #sacrifice #servant-leader #change

If God himself can't save this world without sacrifice... how can we? ↗

— Matthew Tysz

#religious-faith #sacrifice #faith

Good works" are those works that have their origin in Jesus Christ--whose activity is released through your body, presented to Him as a living sacrifice by a faith that expresses total dependence, as opposed to the Adamic independence (Rom. 12:1, 2). ↗

— W. Ian Thomas

#dependence #faith #good-works #jesus-christ #living-sacrifice

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#faith #financial-freedom #giving #promise #sacrifice