Quotes About Sacrifice

2 young ladies to sing us the new liberty song readiness to be shot / versus / taxes

Men and women who turn their lives over to God will find out that he can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He will deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their souls, raise up friends, and pour our peace. Whoever will lose his life in God will find he has eternal life.

We urge you to do all within your talent and means to build the kingdom of God on Earth. Always strive to sustain, support and do what is best for the kingdom of God.

But if the individual is to sacrifice a measure of personal liberty within the social contract, then individual rights must be guaranteed by law. Thus, it has been said that, in law, rights are the fence an individual erects around himself for protection against his neighbors. How absurd such a posture must seem from a worldview in which the individual emerges out of the society, rather than the other way around.

Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return, the unquestioning willingness to lose everything, even if that loss is as something as precious as life itself.

When you love someone, that love has no limit, no measure, because you know in your deepest being that when that love demands sacrifice, you will give it without question. You will not look for reasons, for justification - the act of giving, of sacrificing, is a natural compulsion, like breathing, and it will, in the end, surprise you because you did it without second thoughts.

Don Jacinto did not reply; perhaps he understood that there was no measure for love of country except in sacrifice, and why ask the poor for more sacrifices? It was the comfortable, the rich like himself--although Istak did not put it this way--who should express it with their wealth. The poor had only their lives to give. -Istak

The bravest are usually those whom we do not know or hear about, those anonymous men who dig the trenches, who produce the food. They are the corpus--you understand that word--the body and also the soul of a nation. Eustaquio, my words are just words, but all through history--and you have studied it--it has always been the many faceless men, those foot soldiers, who have suffered most, who have died. It is they who make a nation." -The Cripple

So honesty then and service are rewarded by banishment and people sell themselves without so much ado because they have no beliefs--only a price.

None will thank me for this, nor anyone will remember. -Istak

Why do you butcher your carabao and feed a throng because your son is getting a wife?" Father always blustered to them who come asking for loans. But always, in the end, the tenants got the money--what they needed for a "decent" funeral, a baptism, a wedding. And as their debts piled up, they promised, "Next harvest will be good...

The bravest are usually those whom we do not know or hear about, those anonymous men who dig the trenches, who produce the food. They are the corpus—you understand that word—the body and also the soul of a nation. Eustaquio, my words are just words, but all through history—and you have studied it—it has always been the most faceless men, those foot soldiers, who have suffered most, who have died. It is they who make a nation.

You cannot ask the poor for sacrifices," I said. "We are already poor. What can we give? How do you measure the patriotism of the poor?

Studies are freaking expensive! And yet I was careful... I was one of those who studied the less! (Miche colucci known as Coluche)

I would give," he said, his voice rough, "everything I am to keep you from being hurt.

The pursuit of normality is the ultimate sacrifice of potential.

They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it?

Sometimes before it gets better the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.

They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it? (note from me: of course I don't believe this, I just thought it was interesting)

I'd trade all my tomorrows for just one yesterday.

If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind…for when I die, the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed Saviour.