Quotes About Sacrifice

The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.

Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.

You can't predict how much time you will get to embrace your opportunity. You have to go after it with everything you have in you, sacrifice and believe.

By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.

Following Christ is a daily thing, not just a one-time thing

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

Lent is a time of grace, a time to convert and live out our baptism fully.

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

I wanna be a part of the generation that throws out money, throws out time, throws out all that we are against something bigger than ourselves.

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Somebody has to be prepared to be the good guy from time to time in order for the human race to prosper, though most people don't want it to be them.

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.

By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.