Quotes About Sacrifice

I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions.

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

Religion is using everything for God.

There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

When it gets a little hard to care, just think about Him hanging there.

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion

The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

All over the world, belief in the supernatural has authorised the sacrifice of people to propitiate bloodthirsty gods, and the murder of witches for their malevolent powers.

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.