Quotes About Sacrifice

If the disease is sin, the remedy is found at the Cross.

Fasting: disciplining spiritual/gospel reliance

It's fine to enjoy familiar surroundings and desire familiar comforts—as long as we understand there may be times when we can't have them. Sometimes we're called to larger duties—like a soldier leaving home to go off to war. Second thoughts at such times are natural—but the Bible tells us, "You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ" (2 Timothy 2:3 NKJV).

Baldwin penned a powerful open letter to Angela Davis, later published in The New York Review of Books. He famously wrote: "We must fight for your life as though it were our own—which it is—and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.

But from his perch in France, he had also seen the dawning of a mass movement in the United States and returned to bear witness to the courage and sacrifice of those he called "improbable aristocrats," like the Little Rock Nine, Dr. King, and the young people who sat in at lunch counters across the South.

I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.

One of Jesus's secrets to fruitfulness in ministry is pruning.

Mom." "What?" She was trying to help. In her own way, this was warm and fuzzy. "Thanks for supper." "It wasn't even on sale," she said. "I paid full price for that crap." "When someone pays retail, that's love," Jared said.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

For until ye are willing to lose thyself in service, ye may not indeed know that peace which He has promised to give--to all.

Back of every soldier is a woman.

Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under this marble figure with wings and this granite pedestal bearing the words "pro patria." What do they mean anyway?

KNOWLT HOHEIMER I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge. When I felt the bullet water my heart I wished I had staid at home and gone to jail For stealing the hogs of Curl Trenary, Instead of running away and joining the army. Rather a thousand times the country jail That to lie under his marble figure with wings, And this granite pedestal Bearing the words, «Pro Patria». What do they mean, anyway?

Henry got me with child, Knowing that I could not bring forth life Without losing my own. In my youth therefore I entered the portals of dust.

The old grim story so many times enacted – for the poor human race has always longed for a Redeemer to take up the burdens that human people themselves alone must carry.

What we share with another ceases to be our own.

I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.

For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us." We might paraphrase, saying, "Herein is personhood, not to will autonomously, but to be and to act for the sake of others.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?

If you have two loves of bread, sell one and buy a lily. The bread becomes a different thing when eaten at a table with the lily in the center.

Everything about her was at once vigorous and exquisite, at once strong and fine. He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.