Quotes About Sacrifice

I could always live in my art but never in my life

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.

What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.

Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

Every once in a while I think, 'What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could be so much easier. The other guys are out having fun, doing other things, why not me?'

~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first.~

It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.

We live and die; Christ died and lived!

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?

Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.

Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.