Quotes About Sacrifice

How many have died that I might live?And who has died that I might live?

The noblest life is the one laid down for another.

If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptierMy house on earth, what rich rewardsThat guerdon were.

My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Sullivan had her Crucifix Soldier and now I have mine. No. I am the soldier. Teacup is the cross.

Loyalty never put blood back in a man's veins.

Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death.

When I die and go to heaven, to St. Peter, I will tell: "one more soldier reporting for duty, sir. I've served my time in hell.

You know the life you have committed yourself to often ends in death.All life does.pg 217

For my family to go on living the way they are living now I can't just die. I've got to die accidentally.

My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind's knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I've placed the eyeless head of all my desires.

The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.

A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

My true desire is to relieve others of their pain, though I myself may fall into hell.

It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.