Quotes About Sacrifice

faith is an initial and ongoing participation in the faith (i.e., faithful death) of Jesus.

for Paul the essential mark of apostleship is conformity to Christ crucified through sacrifice, weakness, and suffering

1. Recognize that the central and centering image of Revelation is the Lamb that was slaughtered.

Revelation imaginatively reveals the nature of any and all systems that oppose the ways of God in the world, especially as revealed in Christ the Lamb who was slaughtered. Those systems are not limited to particular future powers but are found in all places and times.

Non-retaliation, for Paul, is not an option for peacemakers in Christ; rather, it is the way of Christ.

Lamb Christology is inseparable from ethics. Paradoxically, the slaughtered Lamb reveals God and also reveals what it means to be faithful to God. It reveals how God saves humanity and how humanity in turn can serve God.

Specifically, the believer's faith is cruciform faith because Christ's faith(fulness) was expressed on the cross.

The most singularly significant bond between Cincinnatus and Washington is Washington's resignation of the military commission at the end of the Revolution. As a military leader, Washington fought the entire conflict under the assumptions of only two formal pledges: to resign as soon as independence was won and to receive no compensation for his efforts.394

Because there's no such thing as a meaningless sacrifice, Mr. Hill. Because any positive act, no matter how hopeless or insignificant, is ultimately worthwhile.

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." He had an instinctive understanding of the fact that the British as a people dislike boasting, and pride themselves not on victory but on being able to "take it.

There is an immutable law in basketball: someone must fall for someone else to rise. Those at the top stay there only by beating down those just beneath them." 121 When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God.

It was the wound that caused this scar, and the blood it shed, that had saved my life, and had given me the opportunity to save hers.

without struggle there can be no triumph, without suffering there can be no happiness, and without sacrifice there can be no salvation.

Any good strategist knew that sacrificing a pawn was vastly preferable to risking the king. It was the whole reason armies had infantries.

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.

A friend asks if I know the difference between a saint and a martyr: A saint is someone who radiates goodness and bears no faults. A martyr is someone who lives with a saint.

Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

The stronger you become in the Force, the more that you can do, the more that's expected of you, and the less your life belongs to you.

Firemen: your worst day is our everyday.

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.