Quotes About Sacrifice

For as we all know, real love is altruism. It is finding oneself through giving up oneself.

I'm convinced that faith is a matter of inspiration, not a matter of imposition. It is something a person models rather than mandates. Faith does not impose itself on other people. Imposition usually sacrifices somebody else; it seeks to injure or extort others. This is what the terrorist does in an attempt to impose his religion on the world.

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

First, I give my gracious God an entire sacrifice of body and soul, with my most humble thanks for that assurance which His Blessed Spirit imprints in me now of the Salvation of the one, and the Resurrection of the other;

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

Sin is the handle by which I get Christ,...

True love allows that any activity done for the other, even if it is sacrificial, is joyful.

A military life has ever comported with my inclination.

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.

Every strong conviction ends by taking possession of us; it overcomes and absorbs us, and tears us ruthlessly from everything else. Has the Cross so seized upon your life?

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.

Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.

Everything in life has its price.

Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.

If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end.

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'

If you're ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life.

I cannot keep a girlfriend longer than seven months. I have 12 jobs. I don't have time for my personal life. I'm fully aware that this is the sacrifice.

We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.

It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .