Quotes About Sacrifice

Mme. de Gallardon, who could never stop herself from sacrificing her greatest social ambitions and highest hopes of someday dazzling the world to the immediate, obscure, and private pleasure of saying something disagreeable.

How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.

Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true pleasure is that for which they give up another.

We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea of their cost, to those who invented them, in sleepless nights, tears, spasmodic laughter, rashes, asthmas, epilepsies, and the fear of death, which is worse than all the rest.

Il faudrait choisir de cesser de souffrir ou de cesser d'aimer.

No es resultado de la casualidad que los hombres intelectuales y sensibles se entreguen siempre a mujeres insensibles e inferiores y les tengan, sin embargo, apego, si la prueba de que no son amados no los cura en absoluto de sacrificarlo todo por conservar junto a ellos a una mujer así

One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to see the man she loved, for others where he had never trod.

How often the prospect of future happiness is thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification!

How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification, But his desire to know the truth was stronger, and seemed to him nobler than his desire for her.

And often, when the cold government of reason stood unchallenged, he would readily have ceased to sacrifice so many of his intellectual and social interests to this imaginary pleasure.

To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.

So little is our loss, So little is thy gain.

Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.

First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud [395] Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire

Freely we serve, because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in this we stand or fall

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days...

An hour was allowed at noon for dinner and more chores. We stayed in the field until dark, then supper, and still more chores, family worship, and to bed; making all together a hard, sweaty day of about 16 or 17 hours. Think of that, ye blessed 8-hour-day laborers!

How unspeakably wonderful to know that all our concerns are held in hands that bled for us.

Jesus has made God's presence scandalously available to anyone who wants it.

a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification

We do it by love. Christ as crucified is the great object of our love, or should so be; for he is therein unto sinners "altogether lovely." Hence one of the ancients cried out, ? ???? ???? ??????????;—"My love is crucified, and why do I stay behind?" In the death of Christ do his love, his grace, his condescension, most gloriously shine forth.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." Those

But enough of the words. We all know there ain't no extra pay, and rations will be catch as catch can. But we still got plenty of medals!

O makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;