Quotes About Sacrifice

The best countries—and the best societies—are those where citizens are virtuous enough to sacrifice for the common good but unwilling to be forced to sacrifice for the "greater" good.

Love for each other. Care for each other. Sacrifice for each other. And that's what I'm going to ask of all Americans

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

At the ninth hour, under a pitch-black sky, the women stood as close to the cross of Jesus as the soldiers would allow. Jesus' mother had arrived, and when Jesus saw her with the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, "Woman, here is your son," and to the disciple, "Here is your mother." Thus Jesus honored and provided for his mother with nearly his last breath. From that time on, Lazarus took her into his home.

The verb "cleanse" is in the present continual tense, referring to an ongoing activity. It is worth pondering whether our author is saying that cleansing happens in the course of body life, in the context of our communing with one another. Clearly, he does not see it as a purely private matter between the individual and Jesus: it is "we" who have communion and are cleansed by the blood.

Christ did not exalt himself in a world full of self-promotion; rather he stepped down and served others, which most, especially the elite, in the Greco-Roman world would have seen as despicable, not admirable.

Loving talk is cheap when costly deeds are required.

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

It won't be till each one of us is willing, Not you, not me, but every one of us, To hang upon a cross for every man Who suffers, starves and dies, Fight his sore battles as they were our own, And help him from the darkness and the mire, That there will be no crosses and no tyrants, No Herods and no slaves.

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.

War is to man as motherhood is to woman.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

Don Baldomero hadn't been able to disengage himself from that very Spanish concept, to wit: parents must work so that their children may rest and enjoy themselves.

aceite juntó su pringosa suavidad con la acritud astringente del vino, y batidos y juntados sellaron el pacto, cuando los dedos gordezuelos de Nazaria vendaban aquella frente merecedora del yugo para tirar de un arado.

Zaragoza se rendirá? La muerte al que esto diga. Zaragoza no se rinde. La reducirán a polvo: de sus históricas casas no quedará ladrillo sobre ladrillo; caerán sus cien templos; su suelo abriráse vomitando llamas; y lanzados al aire los cimientos, caerán las tejas al fondo de los pozos; pero entre los escombros y entre los muertos habrá siempre una lengua viva para decir que Zaragoza no se rinde.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Love was love, and always demanded more than a lover was capable of giving.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

An English revolution is at least a solemn sacrifice: a French revolution is an indecent massacre.

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. —written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor , 11 November 1755

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.