Quotes About Sacrifice

God has commanded us to love our wives even when they don't deserve it—for if we love them only when they deserve it, where would grace be? In fact, we need to love our wives the most when they deserve it the least.

If Jesus is the Messiah, how could he be put to death?

Husbands should not be in the marriage first and foremost to get their needs met, but rather they should first look out for the interests and needs of their wives. A husband's love should be characterized by sacrifice for the good of his wife.

In God's economy, the way up the ladder is down it. The rise to celebrity starts on your knees with a basin, a towel, and a humble heart.

In God's kingdom, we receive life by giving it away.

Believing in Jesus didn't get the Christians hung or tossed to the lions for sport. Believing in Jesus as the rightful ruler and lord did. There's a difference.

the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters

open societies will once again be urged to close in upon themselves, sacrificing freedom for 'security'.

it is God's Will that all be healed, cause Jesus already paid for it.

That is what we women are trained for, to give to others, to make others comfortable whatever we feel for ourselves. It can be tiring, thankless to be so generous all of the time. I would like to be a bell ringer. Just to go up in the tower and for an hour concentrate on nothing but the sound of the bells and my place in them. That to me would be heaven. – Chapter 22

If your art cannot support your life, your life must support your art.

We wake up one day and find we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.

If you desire one thing for so long, it's a given that you'll miss other things along the way. That's how it is… that's life.

In time of war, it is not enough to say, 'I am a citizen and I have rights.' One must also say, 'I am a citizen and I have obligations.

Love doesn't please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others.

Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams" (1 Sam. 15: 22).

Scientific advancement is never without loss.

Pero por amor se hacen las cosas que de otro modo nunca se harían.(...)Cuando se quiere a alguien, de repente el otro es más importante que uno mismo.

Al fin y al cabo, no sería la primera que moría de amor; en ese sentido estaba en buena compañía: la Sirenita, Julieta, Pocahontas, la Dama de las Camelias, Madame Butterfly, y ahora también yo, Gwendolyn Shepard.

Every society needs particular individuals to do its dirty work for it.

Cred ca societatea are nevoie de anumite persoane care sa ii faca treburile murdare.

Good men sleep peacefully in their beds at night,' George Orwell once articulated, 'because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Women died in childbirth, just as men did on the battlefield, and in both cases it was easier to convince the young and foolhardy to do it, to use them up before they were so old that their bodies refused to do what was necessary.

Right worship, the kind that is pleasing to God, acknowledges the grace that is in Jesus Christ not only with our lips but also with our lives. Christ's own sacrifice makes possible the right kind of offering and proper worship: the sacrifice of the whole of our lives, a thanksgiving existence that proceeds from a mood of gratitude. Worship