Quotes About Laying Down Your Life

#1. Loving God is laying down your life in service to the Creator so that He can give it back to you.

Richard Foth

#2. Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

Tim Hetherington

#3. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.

Veronica Roth

#4. Part of loving kids is laying down fencelines. They need to know immediately when they've crossed a line; otherwise the lesson doesn't get learned.

Carew Papritz

#5. For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.

James E. Faust

#6. Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

Mark Twain

#7. Perhaps the most defining characteristic of a superhero is a willingness to sacrifice for the good of others, even to the point of laying down his or her own life.

Rachel Hawkins

#8. Because obviously the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist. If only life were that great
instead of burnt flesh and turning into ash we had money-giving fairies, bunnies laying pink eggs, and fat men coming down my chimney bearing presents ...

Christina Channelle

#9. Sometimes you wait for your dreams to come true, but sometimes the dream is just a fantasy, when in the real world there are things or people who could make you happier than any of your wildest dreams ever could. You should not wait any more, young Suzie

Holly Martin

#10. They throw their stones at you not expecting that you would catch them with a smile. But a wise soul knows that what life throws at you today, is only preparing you for a stronger tomorrow. After all, you can't build a castle without first laying down its foundations...

Seja Majeed

#11. Yet it seems to me finishing well in this life is not so much about who is the best or greatest at something, but rather who embraces lowliness of heart. Laying down one's rights- meekness- is a blessed virtue, one that must surely come straight from the Throne of Grace.

Beverly Lewis

#12. There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life.

Daniel Wolpert

#13. To lay down one's life for the truth.

Juvenal

#14. It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.

Bessie Head

#15. You know that every evil is founded in self-love, and that self-love is a cloud that takes away the light of reason, which reason holds in itself the light of faith, and one is not lost without the other.

Catherine Of Siena

#16. I love treason but hate a traitor.

Gaius Julius Caesar

#17. I can't touch him. (Jared)
Well, don't you suck. (Stryker)
Oh, believe me, I couldn't agree more. Just be grateful it's not contagious. (Jared)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. I sleep - laying down, not on the ceiling. Nothing about my life is crazy. I fly a lot, I travel a lot. I eat and sleep like everyone else.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

#19. I always have this strange feeling that I am this very old woman laying down about to die. You know, that my life is just her memories, or something.

Celine

#20. With Daisy, Sorreltail, and Ferncloud all busily licking, the kits soon started to stir, letting out faint, whimpering cries. But Daisy didn't look up until all three revived enough to nuzzle into her belly and start suckling.

Erin Hunter

#21. Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

Mitch Albom

#22. I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation.

Jerry West

#23. Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.

Marie Chapian

#24. Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.

Samuel Johnson

#25. Death belongs to life as birth does
The walk is in the raising of the
foot as in the laying of it down

Rabindranath Tagore

#26. While it's easy to believe the worst, God wants you to believe the best. He never promises a trouble-free life of leisure, but he does promise never to leave you and always to love you.

Craig Groeschel

#27. Think of it like this. If you are sad because you can't have something you want - maybe a book or a toy - you can do one of two things: you can do your best to get it, or you can stop wanting it. Either way, if you succeed, you won't be sad any more.

E.H. Gombrich

#28. Over the years i've come to feel that the way people respond to us has less to do with what we've done and more to do with who they are.

Karen Joy Fowler

#29. There are two kinds of creation myths: those where life arises out of the mud, and those where life falls from the sky. In this creation myth, computers arose from the mud, and code fell from the sky.

George Dyson

#30. Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.

Brene Brown

#31. But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#32. I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God's gonna getcha for that.

Tammy Wynette

#33. I will bear any thing you can inflict upon me with Patience, even to the laying down of my Life, to shew my Obedience to you in other Cases; but I cannot be patient, I cannot be passive, when my Virtue is at Stake!

Samuel Richardson

#34. The gospel is so valuable that no risk is unreasonable. Life is gained by laying it down for the gospel. If I live, I win and get to keep on preaching Christ. If I die, I win bigger by going directly to be with Christ...

David Sitton