Quotes About Sacrifice

I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.

We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.

You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.

Jesus has given me eternal life in Him. Let them take my life here, but God holds me in the palm of His hand and no one can take Him from me.

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

For this is but to dash the first table against the second; and so to consider men as Christians, as we forget that they are men. Lucretius the poet, when he beheld the act of Agamemnon, that could endure the sacrificing of his own daughter, exclaimed: Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum.

Our love can be no more partial than Jesus' love for all those he died to save

To despoil oneself of all wealth in Jesus' name is a sign of faith in Divine Providence.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love -- every man works his oar voluntarily!

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What you are in his sight is what you are and nothing more. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing that you have received...but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.

Upon this, Bernard went and sold all that he had. Now he was very rich, and with great joy he distributed his wealth to widows, to orphans, to prisoners, to monasteries, to hospitals, and to pilgrims, in all which St Francis assisted him with prudence and fidelity.

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

For a Christian, the most essential thing God does in time, in all of human history, is to be that man in the crowd; a man under arrest, and on his way to our common catastrophe.

All which I took from thee I did but take,Not for thy harms,But just that thou might'st seek it in My arms.

Expressing your talent of power means to do what you truly love and allowing it to become your work. In this way work does not involve any sacrifice, duty, effort or compromise. It becomes a sheer expression of your love, as everything you do and are. Whatever you need in life, including money and material goods, come to you abundantly as a response to this love.

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. (In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide)

Risk a lot to save a lot, risk a little to save a little, and risk nothing for what is already lost."

Wir wollten diese Finals unbedingt machen, wollten das Duell Detlef Schrempf gegen Michael Jordan ins Deutsche Fernsehen bringen. Das war unser Traum. Uns war doch völlig egal, ob das nach deutscher Zeit mitten in der Nacht war! Das interessierte uns nicht. Ganz schön egoistisch. Aber im Nachhinein zeigte sich, das ganze Schülerschaften von zwölf- bis achtzehnjährigen sich die Nächte um die Ohren schlugen, um diese Duelle zu sehen.