Quotes About Sacrifice

Service without selfness, is not service

Comtemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen and then ask yourself, What should be the reward of such sacrifices... If ye love wealth better than freedom, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands that feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

gave unto the gods what was the gods"' and recognized and accepted as inevitable mortal

I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done; I only hope that is the judgement of a ruined mind, with critical faculties shocked and fragmented on grief; because if they are great ... they cost too much!

I will bear any thing you can inflict upon me with Patience, even to the laying down of my Life, to shew my Obedience to you in other Cases; but I cannot be patient, I cannot be passive, when my Virtue is at Stake!

If ye were not Christ's wheat, appointed to be bread in His house, He would not grind you.

We would either have a silent, a soft, a perfumed cross, sugared and honeyed with the consolations of Christ, or we faint; and providence must either brew a cup of gall and wormwood, mastered in the mixing with joy and songs, else we cannot be disciples. But Christ's cross did not smile on him, his cross was a cross, and his ship sailed in blood, and his blessed soul was sea-sick, and heavy even to death.

Heaven is but a company of noble venturers for Christ. They are not worthy of Him who will not take a blow for the Master's sake.

Christ's cross is such a burden as sails are to a ship or wings to a bird.

To live on Christ's love is a king's life.

The worst things of Christ, His reproaches, His cross, are better than Egypt's treasures.

O, that we could put our treasure in Christ's hand, and give Him our gold to keep, and our crown.

what can ail faith, seeing Christ suffereth Himself (with reverence to Him be it spoken) to be commanded by it; and Christ commandeth all things.

As our dear Husband, in wooing his [church], received many a black stroke, so his bride, in wooing him, gets many blows, and in this wooing there are strokes upon both sides

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

The man hath penance done,And penance more will do.

Remember the Alamo

Liberty and love These two I must have. For my love I'll sacrifice My life. For liberty I'll sacrifice My love.

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.

One leads, willing or not," Deputy Tallien answered. "It takes courage to face one's own death but even more so the death of others. We are learning this lesson well.