Quotes About Sacrifice

The road to committed faith is paved with personal abandonment and self-denial. Life ceases to be about us, and it begins to be all about God.

We can give away all that He entrusts to us in the same spirit of generosity.

You can't know the intimate marriage you desire Ã¢â'¬Â¦ until you know Jesus first. You have to receive His love before you can give it. His love must overtake you, envelop you, and fill you. Only then can you share it with another.

When it comes to the church what has your answer been? Has it been no? Has it been, "Well, maybe, if I have time"? Or has it been an unconditional yes? Imagine how your life might change if you were willing to say to your church and to God, My answer is yes. Anything. Anywhere. Anytime. Use me as your church and for your glory.

The question is: Will you choose the pain of discipline or the pain of regret?

We find our lives when we give them away.

Our family has agreed to increase the percentage of what we give each year. Instead of increasing our standard of living, we're increasing our standard of giving.

Like some strange little religion all its own, the one thing that makes the whole system work is the one thing that it robs you of - faith.

We do everything we can to protect the people we love, whatever it takes, and it's not enough. Unlike bone, once that illusionary magic circle is broken, it can never be completely repaired, and it is not stronger at the break.

I just don't understand any of it. I guess I've fought so hard to keep my life that I can't conceive of a situation where I'd voluntarily give it up.

Hurt him. Hurt him and save him

Should Shakespeare have stayed home in Stratford-on-Avon to help rear his family and not have abandoned them for London, the city that made him?

Jesus died for his own sins, not mine.

Economy: As an adjective, cheap; As a noun, that which compels us to render ourselves as such.

I guess it's about what you have to give up to gain something else...Did you always have to give something up for a gain?

I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.

We left a lot of things behind - not only physical objects, but our friends and of course our families, pieces of ourselves - all for the chance to see that light in Maribel's eyes. It's been difficult, yes, but I would do it all again. People do what they have to do in this life. We try to get from one end of it to the other with dignity and with honor. We do the best we can.

And I would discover how much of life is defined by what you want to keep and what you are forced to lose.

El matrimonio es una institución absurda. Una se ve vendida a los quince años y presta un juramento que no entiende y del que luego se arrepiente a lo largo de treinta años o más, pero que ya no se puede romper. Sissi Emperatriz de Austria

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

In the "grain of wheat" metaphor, Jesus insists if we wish to hold on to the throughline to eternity, we have to follow that line through death. We have to imagine death enough to see it not as some utterly aversive event we go away from or around, but instead as something recognizable enough to go through. When we thoughtfully stock our minds with images of death, we give the Spirit of Jesus the raw material to draw mental throughlines from death to resurrection.

side. "Not good," he replied, "but I'll live." "Well, quick now, get on Chancer while I see to Master Hogan," Drew whispered. As Whitley grabbed the horse by the reins, Drew scrambled over to the scout, who lay slumped in a bed of bracken. "Get gone," said the old ranger, barely audible. The color had drained from his face, and his lips were pale and bloodless.

The gospel that day (Matthew 4:19) described Jesus's recruitment of his first disciples from among the Galilean fishermen and concluded with the line, "at once they left their nets and followed him." The monk merely commented, "Would that we might do the same.