Quotes About Sacrifice

My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it left blood on the floor and wreckage in its wake.

Everything we were grabbing for, we are to instead give. It is the only way to truly seize it.

Life following Christ is not supposed to be a ride. It's supposed to be a fight because there is a very specific villain—and if we don't fight, he wins. If our Christianity aims only for pretty and pleasant and happy and rich, the Enemy becomes the victor.

After September 11, I wondered rhetorically midway through a column what we in the West are prepared to die for, and got a convoluted e-mail back from a French professor explaining that the fact that Europeans weren't prepared to die for anything was the best evidence of their superiority: they were building a post-historical utopia - a Europe it would not be necessary to die for. But sometimes you die anyway.

The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise.

It would be surprising if you didn't hate me for what I've had to do today. A part of me hates myself. But I have orders. Winter is coming. My country is under siege. Without this food, my people will starve. So here in Italy, and in your eyes, I'm a criminal. Back home, I'll be an unsung hero. Good. Evil. It's all a question of perspective, is it not?

Father Re put his hand on Pino's shoulder. "It sounds like too much to me, too, Pino, but I'm afraid it's not too much for God to ask of you.

And with that, in the dark of the night as two thousand Jews lost their lives, Emil Martel's faith in a benevolent God, his belief in himself and in the common good of man, left him.

The Nazis have killed priests helping Jews. They've pulled them right off the altar while they were saying Mass." "We have heard that, too," the priest said. "But we can't stop loving our fellow man, Pino, because we're frightened. If we lose love, all is lost. We just have to get smarter.

God wants you to fight in a different way, and for a greater good, or he would not have put you where you are.

Pino saw the trials of the past few weeks in a different light, and he felt excited and filled with new purpose. "You want me to guide them, Father?" Pino asked. "The three Jews?" "Three of God's children whom he loves," Father Re said. "Will you help them?" "Of course. Yes." The priest put his hand on Pino's shoulder. "I want you to understand that you will be risking your life.

More than eighty thousand Red Army soldiers would die in the next ten days, wresting Berlin from Nazi control.

The only way to make my life matter is to choose less. And the first thing I need less of is me. Once that issue is settled, I am in a position to live a life that lasts longer than I do.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

At one point you think, well, it's funny, I could just be a starving actor... So if somebody were to pull the plug right now, there'd be no room for complaint.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest.

Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed.

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

You can't eat your friends and have them too

And all I know is, you've got to give me everything. Nothing less 'cause, you know I give you all of me.

They are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.