Quotes About Sacrifice

It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.

Stood for his country's glory fast,And nail'd her colors to the mast!

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

So when we look at any sacrificial action, any surrender of wealth we must first acknowledge that it is in fact wealth.

working for your daed every day was like going to the dentist to get a root canal.

When love's involved, there's got to be a way.

it is almost exclusively our sons who are willing to risk death so their family will have a better life.

Seeing my dad forfeit promotions so he could have more time with my sister, brother, mom, and me gave me a role model in my dad that was more than a financial womb—more than a success object.

Fatherhood was about your dad trading in the old glint in his eye-what he loved to do- for the new glint in his eye: his love for you.

would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound.

Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him." -

Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me.

Attempting to follow Him without denying the self is the root of all failures.

The most enduring heroes are people who don't try to be.

You don't make a journey like that alone. You make it with a lot of love and sacrifice. That's probably why I was searching the stands for my father after we won the gold medal against Finland. It was a moment that was begging to be shared.

there are two pains in life: the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret. You choose.

In the information age in which we live, technology has a way of selling us on convenience. If something can't be done electronically, we are not interested in doing it. But the bottom line for effective ministry must never be our own convenience. It takes blisters, commitment, and a willingness to go wherever the Lord leads us to get it done. This may be a foreign concept to some leaders;

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men." A. W. TOZER

No, the cross was not primarily about exacting punishment; it was about prevailing over sin's power. In the Son of God didn't just punish sin, but he served up the antidote that Christ was able to endure until sin itself was destroyed. Now, all who embrace him can live in the effects of the andidote, prevailing over sin through a growing relationship to the Creator of all.

No, the cross was not primarily about exacting punishment; it was about prevailing over sin's power. In the Son, God didn't just punish sin, but he served up the antidote that Christ was able to endure until sin itself was destroyed. Now, all who embrace him can live in the effects of the andidote, prevailing over sin through a growing relationship to the Creator of all.

Mother Teresa was once asked by a journalist why she does what she does, that is, how she is able to take the dying poor from the streets of Calcutta, nurse and love them. Her response reflected her deep self-knowledge: "I realized a long time ago that I had a Hitler within me."2 This realization became the basis of her self-transcendence and of her unique holiness.

Adventures are funny things. Many are merely happy accidents—a single spark that ignites an unexpected chain of events. But some adventures are meant for you and you alone. And whether you want them or not, they seek you out of a great crowd and take you somewhere you never thought you'd go. Often, these unlooked for adventures require a sacrifice too great to imagine.

Dead heroes do nothing to protect their people tomorrow.