God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.
Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.
Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them while draining millions of dollars from more promising efforts to restore safety to our lives.
Do you realize this? That if you were to somehow purpose to, from this day on, perfectly please God and succeed in doing it, that that perfect obedience, from this moment, would not acquire in the remainder of your life, enough merit to atone for one past sin, because God exacts and God demands perfect obedience and there's no merit for giving him the minimal requirement.
There were the days of so-called free love. . . but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.
Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
Living too long exacts a painful price.
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually - as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by those who commit themselves to revolutionary agitation.
Civilized life exacts its toll.
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes
I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.
Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
Standing up for what you believe in comes at a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying
