quotations about sacrifice
Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Fight Club
A sacrifice should be willingly offered; God doth not accept an offering made through compulsion of another.
THEODORIC
attributed, Day's Collacon
Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
"Easter, 1916"
See where man's voluntary sacrifice
Bows His meek head, the God eternal dies!
Fixed to the Cross His bleeding arms are bound,
While copious Mercy streams from every wound.
BISHOP LOUTH
attributed, A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations
With a compromise, two people will be trying to figure something out. With a sacrifice, one person will be asked to give something up. A relationship based on one person's sacrifice won't continue to work over time. A relationship based on healthy compromises, however, will.
ANJALI SAREEN NOWAKOWSKI
"Sacrifice Vs. Compromise In A Relationship: Here's The Super Importance Difference Between The Two", Elite Daily, September 16, 2017
In its primary use, a sacrifice is a gift, an offering given from humans to God. It involves an object, usually an animal, which is transferred from the human to the divine realm. In its second use, which emerged later, the term refers to giving up a vital interest for a higher cause. Someone may sacrifice his property, comfort, limb, or even life for his children, country, or in order to fulfill an obligation. This latter sense of sacrifice also entails giving, but in this case it is giving up or for, and not giving to.
MOSHE HALBERTAL
On Sacrifice
The true sacrifice is the sacrifice of the breath for the higher gnosis of recognizing one's identity with the absolute.
GAVIN FLOOD
"Sacrifice as Refusal", Sacrifice and Modern Thought