Tina St. John Quotes

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.

Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of.

Good Soldiers don't sacrifice the cause for love - Lucas If the cause isn't love then it isn't worth the sacrifice

There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

He shrugged. "I was...thinking." "About what?" "The fires of purgatory." She had to sit down. He wasn't making any sense now. "What does that mean?" she asked. "Patrick told me he would walk through the fires of purgatory if he had to in order to please his wife." She went over to the bed and sat down on the side. "And?" she prodded when he didn't continue. He stripped out of his clothing and walked over to her. He pulled her to her feet and stared down to her. "And I have only just realized I would do the same for you.

What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.

I had to do something for the country.

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.

I shall always be a priest of love.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

I don't know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can't do that. I can only say, I owe you.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more.

I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.

Where could death have found him but at the post of duty.

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to, without the help and support of the woman I love.

A good woman is one who loves her husband and loves her country and has no desire to run either of them.

I wanted to do well for me and for Maura. It is bigger than me. I have a responsibility. It's incumbent upon me to do Maura the best I can.

Let me be very clear: my friendship with my friends ends where the interest of the country begins.