Quotes About Sacrifice

The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

The man who preaches the cross must be a crucified man.

The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.

The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.

The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

If I had 300 men who feared nothing but God, hated nothing but sin, and were determined to know nothing among men but Jesus Christ and Him crucified, I would set the world on fire.

If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.

I killed one man to save 100,000.

If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Men, today we die a little.