Quotes About Sacrifice

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.

When a man and a woman give themselves to each other in an act of marital love, they can know the love of Christ as no one else can know it.

Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.

God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.

When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found.

Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.

Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.