Quotes About Sacrifice

Sons of the dark and bloody ground.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country, is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

Of course, really, those that stayed were entitled to precisely as much honor as those that went.

Mr. Roosevelt has gathered around him a body of public servants who are nowhere surpassed, I question whether they are anywhere equaled, for efficiency, self-sacrifice, and an absolute devotion to their country's interests. Many of them are poor men, without private means, who have voluntarily abandoned high professional ambitions and turned their backs on the rewards of business to serve their country on salaries that are not merely inadequate, but indecently so.

A politician who really serves his country well, and deserves his country's gratitude, must usually possess some of the hardy virtues which we admire in the soldier who serves his country well in the field. Far

Leave your wife and children, never have contact with them again, and I will give you a life of luxury. He sold his soul. And he'd done it with both eyes open.

The butcher's bill was too dear.

He placed us in churches to serve, to care for others, to pray for leaders, to learn, to teach, to give, and, in some cases, to die for the sake of the gospel. Many churches are weak because we have members who have turned the meaning of membership upside down. It's time to get it right. It's time to become a church member as God intended. It's time to give instead of being entitled.

you are there to meet the needs of others. You are there to serve others. You are there to give. You are there to sacrifice.

Healthy church membership means you find your joy in being last, instead of seeking your way and being first.

Prayerful Commitment 1 God, open my eyes that I might see my church as You see it. Let me see where change needs to take place, even if it is painful to me. And use me, I pray, to be an instrument of that change whatever the cost.

Membership in the church is not country club membership. It's not about paying your dues and getting perks.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

I'll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace.

Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

Go where thou wilt, seek what thou wilt, and thou shalt not find a higher way above, nor a safer way below, than the way of the holy Cross." - Thomas A Kempis (The Following of Christ)