Quotes About Sacrifice

It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.

No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.

No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.

The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.

He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given.

In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. - In the long run, it's better to please God - he's more apt to remember.

If you asked Rahul Dravid to walk on glass for his team, his only question would be - 'How many miles?' That just shows you how great a man he is.

A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

those who do not give in and who, through their sacrifices and constancy, keep the horror at bay, keep us from descending into utter chaos and darkness. In doing so, they give us hope.

Comprendí que el amor encierra todas las vocaciones, que el amor lo es todo, que abarca todos los tiempos y todos los lugares... en una palabra, que es eterno.

Un domingo mientras miraba una estampa de nuestro Señor crucificado, me impresionó profundamente la sangre que goteaba de sus divinas manos. Experimenté un gran dolor al pensar que esa sangre caía en tierra sin que a nadie le interesara recogerla. Resolví entonces permanecer en espíritu al pie de la cruz para recibir el divino rocío que de ella manaba, comprendiendo que luego tendría que volcarlo en las almas...

I knew that love would not turn the silver devil into an angel. He would remain what he was--subtle yet childish, unfeeling yet passionate, lost irretrievably to everything but his own desire. But he loved me--and I loved him, now and forever.