Quotes About Sacrifice

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

No Pain No Gain

Christianity is supposed to be all about love but it's utterly useless when you're in love.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

what makes and ordinary person heroic is when they give up the thing they want most

A real man doesn't waver in the face of what needs to be done," he said softly. "There are many acts of war. Many battles that take place off the field with no uniforms or offices in command. Sometimes, battle takes place on your kitchen floor.

A soldier's body is a work of art that contains his country's history.

Your doctors are also the victims of their own belief system, in other words. They constantly surround themselves with negative suggestions. When disease is seen as an invader, forced upon the integrity of the self for no reason, then the individual seems powerless and the conscious mind an adjunct. The patient is sometimes compelled to sacrifice one organ after another to his beliefs, and to the doctor's.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

Remember, you must never use your position to lord it over the heathen. Instead you must humble yourself and earn their respect though your own quiet faith and the power of the Holy Spirit. The missionary must seek nothing for himself, no seat of honor or hope of fame. Like the cabhorse in London, each of you must wear blinkers that blind you to every danger and to every snare and conceit. You must be content to suffer, to die, and to be forgotten. -Count Zinzendorf

But more important, how could he prove to Olivia that she was worth not only rearranging heaven and earth and a few paltry mountains for, but also the very fabric of life?

I'd bitch slap the devil for you.

There is no mercy in trading life for life. And certainly no righteousness. Mercy, once given, cannot be taken back.

I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.

As far as giving up Frank, we have only a few months more with him before he has to go to monkey college anyway." "That's probably where you'll end up going to school too.

Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

I've got you figured out," he said. "You'll forge ahead and act like everything's okay when it's not. You're the kind to just keep going, to make sure everyone else is okay, even when you're not.

It is a criterion of love. In moments of decision, we are to try to make what seems to be the most loving, the most creative decision. We are not to play safe, to draw back out of fear. Love may well lead us into danger. It may lead us to die for our friend. In a day when we are taught to look for easy solutions, it is not always easy to hold onto that most difficult one of all, love.

To enjoy the journey is to give until the stretch is a sacrifice. The question always is: what is it in life that will pull you out of your seat to be brave, risk and serve?

305 "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."~

The greatest sacrifice a man can make is the image of his soul.

My personal pride must not be allowed to stand in the way of my duty to the country. If I am only half efficient, I should turn the office over to the vice president. If it is going to take much time for me to recover my health and strength, the country cannot afford to wait for me.

Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or religion helps solve the problem of how unrelated individuals are to live together without killing each other—by providing them with a bond not based on kinship. Second, it gives people a motive, other than genetic self-interest, for sacrificing their lives on behalf of others.