Quotes About Sacrifice

By your father's word has your life been given to me to protect. Now do I give you my life in return, yours to keep until the day I die. --Falon to Shanelle

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.

I want to save my people. That is the purpose of my life

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.

Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.

There's a throne in each life big enough for only one. Christ may be on that throne, or money may be. But both cannot occupy it.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.

Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties

No one can truly know Christ unless they follow him in life.

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.

My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?