Quotes About Sacrifice

The Teams had a saying: "Don't rush to your death.

The one big exception was a hostage rescue mission, where safety was sacrificed for speed in the name of protecting the hostage.

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?' And I said, 'Here am I. Send me!

To those before us, to those amongst us, to those we'll see on the other side. Lord let me not prove unworthy of my brothers.

Interrupted by blood, bile, and sticky white slivers of bone and brain were the words Pamwe Chete; the gift from Rich Hastings had taken another soul.

Jack Coughlin

Not romantic," she disagreed. "To me it would be romantic if Antony properly fell on his sword and kicked the bucket and Cleopatra escaped and lived a lovely life sailing along the Nile without him and his big ideas ruining her kingdom.

Love can leave you nowhere in New Mexico raising peacocks for the rest of your life.

In wartime, everyone loves a soldier, and a wounded hero even more so.

I'm prepared to put you ahead of me for the rest of my life.

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.

Selfless men wind up in neglected graves.

War is the greatest of teachers, and not all of its lessons are bad. Their cost is just so terribly high.

We prostrate ourselves before the fish-god Yob, who seems as efficacious as any.

Carrie lay on the bed and gazed at the ceiling. She was back in business. It was a day to remember. December 7, the same day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The next day America declared war on Japan. America declared war. And she was a whore again.

The ego thought system is based not only on guilt, but on lack. The scarecrow thinks he needs a brain, the tin man thinks he needs a heart, and the lion thinks he lacks courage. We are taught we have to earn everything here, or that it has to be bestowed upon us by someone worthier or better than we are. We suffer and sacrifice ourselves in order to be worthy of God's love. Does this feel right to you?

I know I am capable of loving to the full capacity, of not being frightened of loving too much, of giving myself up and over

They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.

Devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ is giving everything or nothing at all. Your devotion to Christ must be a serious commitment to His Lordship.

We need people who will go, and stay until the end.

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

Jessie reached for 'Ten Bright Ideas to Light Up Your Sales'. It was on her bedside table, right next to 'Charlotte's Web'. Jessie's hand hovered. She looked longingly at Wilbur and Fern watching Charlotte hanging b a thread. But this was war, and she couldn't stop to read for fun.