Quotes About Sacrifice

Football will chew you up and spit you out if you let it.

And I think my daughter knows now that our life is split in two. Half of the year is spent with Mommy working and the other is spent with no work in sight.

My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.

I want you to hear from God. God already spoke to me what I'm going to write out. You're going to write your checks to Paula White Ministries. If God tells you to give $12.99, do it. Whatever the Holy Spirit speaks to you. If you need to give by credit card, do so.

My sophomore year at high school, I spent $300 I had earned working at After School Matters for my first studio session. For a 16-year-old to sacrifice that much money was pivotal. It spoke a lot about how serious I was.

There are schoolteachers around the country that work second jobs after their teaching duties are done: one woman in North Dakota I spoke to was heading off to clean houses after the final bell in order to pay her rent.

If you want to follow Jesus because He'll fix your marriage, if you want to follow Jesus because He'll give you a better life, that's idolatry. Follow Christ for the sake of Christ; He is worthy!

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.

It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.

...The only slogan we need in order to be happy in our home is: Love Each Other -three simple words. Apply the ingredients of love. Sacrifice for each other. Make each other happy.

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

The most welcome and painful moments of the life is within marriage.

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.