Quotes About Sacrifice

Oh that moment when Daniel thought he'd lost her to Cam's starshot! His wings hat felt too heavy to lift. Colder than death. In that instant , he'd given up all hope.

I'd rather die than go to heaven.

Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

Death is a mercy, and I have enough mercy to go around.

Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.

Come on, Gypsy girl. I'm bleeding to death here, in case you haven't noticed. At least make it worth my while and kiss me before I die.

Jesus did not ask us to believe that his death was a blood sacrifice, that he was going to die for our sins.

I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.

no, a mí no se me habría pasado por la cabeza abandonar la familia y la fábrica para dedicar todo mi tiempo a escribir, como él hizo.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt commends "the reading of the Bible" to my brother. The way they got these kids to die. Commends.

He thinks, Because ... [x9]. But all he says to his son is, 'Because I don't want to lose my children.

Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

The fact that Jesus came to earth where he suffered and died does not remove pain from our lives. But it does show that God did not sit idly by and watch us suffer in isolation. He became one of us. Thus, in Jesus, God gives us an up-close and personal look at his response to human suffering. All our questions about God and suffering should, in fact, be filtered through what we know about Jesus.

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

Christian faith, which is at its heart about self-giving—God's self-giving and human self-giving—and not about self-imposing.

Often a work of God comes with two edges, great joy and great pain, and in that matter-of-fact response Mary embraced both. She was the first person to accept Jesus on His own terms, regardless of the personal cost.

Jesus gave a vivid object lesson his last night with the disciples by washing their feet, like a servant. Parents know the self-giving principle by instinct as they pour their energies into their self-absorbed children. Volunteers in soup kitchens and hospices and mission projects learn this lesson by doing.* What seems like sacrifice becomes instead a kind of nourishment because dispensing grace enriches the giver as well as the receiver.

Jesus did not eliminate evil; he revealed a God willing, at immense cost, to forgive it and to heal its damage.

culture? As Lesslie Newbigin poses the question, "Can one who goes the way of the Cross sit in the seat of Pilate when it falls vacant?

We have not, it seems, the power to abstain from worship. Instead, we swallow the sweet poison, substituting lesser gods for God.

Christians behave like spies, living in one world while our deepest allegiance belongs to another.