Quotes About Sacrifice

If people just put away what's left at the end of the month, that's a recipe for failure.

If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.

Ours is the Spirit of the Eucharist, the total Gift of Self.

They lose nothing who gain Christ.

In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it willingly for Him. I may not be a martyr for the faith, but I can be a martyr of charity.

He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

Faith is the willingness to risk anything on God.

You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.

He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.

The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual.

Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Peace is worth far more than anything they might take from you.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith

Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their sins.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value.