Quotes About Sacrifice

This was war: a vast machine that chewed up people.

Whether a man bows down to God or Mammon or to Cthulhu in his dark house at R'lyeh is no affair of mine . . . until he sheds one drop of blood not his own in his deity's name. Then God have mercy upon him, for I shall not.

Audie was the cleverest man Moss had ever met. He was Yoda. He was Gandalf. He was Morpheus. Now he'd become a walking suicide note.

Loving children is easy. Keeping them is hard.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them. J.R.R . TOLKIEN

Saracen The Knight: There will be a cost. Saint-Germain: Anything. I will pay anything to get my wife back. Saracen: Even your immortality? Saint-Germain: Even that. What's the point in living forever, when it is not with the woman I love?

To be a good soldier you must love the army. But to be a good officer you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. That is Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a very hard thing to do. No other profession requires it. That is one reason why there are so very few good officers. Although there are many good men.

Thermopylae – The Battle that Changed the World

Those were the words of a British army officer, and member of Captain Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole, before walking out from his tent and into a blizzard. Knowing his gangrene and frostbite were hurting their chances of survival, he chose certain death, to relieve his friends of the burden of caring for him.

All those who do great things for God will ultimately stand alone.

While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.

Good old Cat Poop tapped his pencil against the pad. "You're telling me that you hurt yourself because you want to be a ballerina," he said. "Is that right?

Leave me as I am; for the one who enables me to endure the fire will also enable me to remain on the pyre without moving, even without the sense of security that you get from the nails." Polycarp's Prayer

Far from being a way to achieve success, ease, and comfort, Christianity calls us to live a life that forgets self and focuses on being God's instrument to show his love to others.

Joining the corporate worship of the body of Christ requires that we allow something else—the good of the body—to supercede our personal preferences.

elected because of those conflicts—his business savvy, connections, experience, and brand—not in spite of them, and that it was ludicrous for anyone to think he could untangle himself even if he wanted to. Indeed, to reporters and anyone else who would listen, Kellyanne Conway offered on Trump's behalf a self-pitying defense about how great his sacrifice had already been.

The lake district's rain was the price you paid to live amongst such beauty.

If people can be saved and accepted by God the Father apart from the saving work of Jesus Christ on the cross, then why was He crucified?

War does not determine who is right, but who is left." —old military proverb Caledonia

L'ARBRE GEANT FREMISSAIT sous les coups de hache. A coté du colosse végétal, les hommes à la peau sombre, luisante de sueur, ressemblaient à des miniatures mouvantes. [...] La grande forêt pris le deuil. Les bruits les plus fantastiques se mirent à courir : on avait tué l'Arbre-Dieu.

Yes, seven years old she was, when she finally plucked up the courage to ask her mother what Christmas was all about, and Mrs Castaway replied (once only, after which the subject was forever forbidden): 'It's the day Jesus Christ died for our sins. Evidently unsuccessfully, since we're still paying for them.

Historically, such human beings have existed. Human beings who have worked - worked hard - all their lives with no other motive than their love and devotion; who have literally given their lives for others, out of love and devotion. Human beings who have no sense of having made any sacrifice; who cannot imagine any other way of life than giving their lives for others - out of love and devotion. In general, such human beings are invariably women.

Jesus had loved men too much, that was the problem; to let himself be crucified for their sake showed, at the very least, a lack of taste, as the old faggot would have put it.

Were they ready to give up everything for their country? I felt ready to give up everything, not really for my country, but in general.