Quotes About Sacrifice

The call of the new covenant is the same as the old: in loving God, we give him our "all.

1917 (or possibly 1918) poem, 'Greater Love': 'Red lips are not so red/ As the stained stones kissed by the English dead

There was a surprising apparent enthusiasm for the war among homosexuals, some of whom went to war in the hope 'that a bullet might put an end to their life which they regard as being a complete failure from their point of view of the present conditions and notions.

But though the mass Be holy, yet the first-fruits God most loves.

The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough, Is having the blind persistence To upset an existence Just for your own sake. What cheek it must take.

In Russia there will always be small groups of people, so dedicated to their ideas and so passionately feeling the misery of their homeland, that they will not think it a sacrifice to die for their cause.

We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the Aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.

The Son of God, prompted by the same infinite love, laid aside his divine glory and mode of existence, emptied himself exchanged the form of God for the form of a servant, humbled himself and became obedient, even unto the death of the cross.

Every church, yea, every truth and every good cause, has its martyrs, who stood the fiery trial and sacrificed comfort and life itself to their sacred convictions. The blood of martyrs is the seed of toleration; toleration is the seed of liberty; and liberty is the most precious gift of God to every man who has been made in his image and redeemed by Christ.

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.

I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else.

For me to live is Christ; to die is gain." 1:21

The present winter is worth an age if rightly employed, but if lost or neglected, the whole continent will partake of the misfortune; and there is no punishment which that man will not deserve, be he who, or what, or where he will, that may be the means of sacrificing a season so precious and useful.

Her temperament has never been competitive; she immediately wants to disappear, to obliterate herself, to make way for them.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

I decided I would go with them, but it would be at my father's house that I would eat. I would share his food, and his poverty.

Obsessions never count the cost.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

both characters had given up what they held dearest, the very basis of their lives — their premises — for a woman, and then had found in her a kind of saving grace. They had opened themselves up and, in the opening, found a transformation. In the pretty pun of C. S. Lewis, they had been "surprised by joy.

It is magnificent, but it is not war.

On est en effet dans un monde économique à l'envers : l'artiste ne peut triompher sur le terrain symbolique qu'en perdant sur le terrain économique (au moins à court terme), et inversement (au moins à long terme).