Quotes About Sacrifice

I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further.

For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother tomorrow.

The course of true love never did run smooth; But, either it was different in blood, O cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low. Or else misgraffed in respect of years, O spite! too old to be engag'd to young. Or else it stood upon the choice of friends, O hell! to choose love by another's eye.

Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.

The Church must be free to be poor in order to minister among the poor.

To consume the Eucharist is an act of anticonsumption, for here to consume is to be consumed, to be taken up into participation in something larger than the self, yet in a way in which the identity of the self is paradoxically secured.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the loreOf nicely calculated less or more.

Everyone suffers, even the good Lord suffered when he was on Earth.

No Water made her want to be taken, which was exciting and frightening. Crazy Horse made her want to give, which was fulfilling. She

You might fight your enemy—that had respect in it. You might even kill him—respect again. But to do what the wasicu did: afflict your enemy with disease, pen him up, starve him, and then rescue his body on the condition that he surrender his spirit

But these were only things. In return for them the wasicu wanted you to relinquish your own genius, which was not of things but of the spirit. From

made a pilgrimage to Fort Robinson, where he chose death over the loss of his freedom.

"Not in vain" may be the pride of those who have survived and the epitaph of those who fell.

He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors, and airmen, who side by side with ours are carrying on their task to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.