Quotes About Sacrifice

would not consider any spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ."3

We're not married in a carefree garden of Eden; we're married in the midst of many responsibilities that compete for our energy.

If you want to be free to serve Jesus, there's no question—stay single. Marriage takes a lot of time. But if you want to become more like Jesus, I can't imagine any better thing to do than to get married. Being married forces you to face some character issues you'd never have to face otherwise.

love is not an emotion; it's a policy and a commitment that we choose to keep in the harshest of circumstances. It's something that can be learned and that we can grow in. Biblical love is not based on the worthiness of the person being loved—none of us deserves Christ's sacrifice—but on the worthiness of the One who calls us to love: "We love because he first loved us" (1 John 4:19).

We all want to win. Every athlete wants to succeed. But the ones who do are those who separate wanting from being willing to make the sacrifice that winning demands.

While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, veterans, first responders, and the families that serve alongside them, we can always do a little more.

There's a message I want to deliver in this book: I love my country and I'm grateful to be an American. I know where my freedom comes from, and I do not take for granted the sacrifices of those who provide it. Because of that, I want to do all I can to ensure America's defenders and their families are never forgotten.

I can most certainly say that what happened to our country on September 11 broke my heart and changed me forever. It forced me to rethink everything. What do I really believe? How do I want to raise my kids? What kind of example do I want to set for them? What can I do to give back to this great country I love? How can I use my good fortune to help? It was a turning point and marked the beginning of a new level of service. I found that the more I gave, the more I healed.

Ronald Reagan once said, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, hand handed on for them to do the same.

We bring nothing to God, and He gives us everything.

More than anything, he wanted them to know that even though they would grow up never knowing their father, it was not for the lack of his love for them. No, it was because he loved them so, because he was determined they have the life they deserved, that he had given everything to help secure it for them. That was the most bitter irony of war: The greatest acts of love for your family were the ones that kept you apart from them.

That was the most bitter irony of war: The greatest acts of love for your family were the ones that kept you apart from them.

When we work to take instead of to give, we labor without reverence.

Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.

I'll be dead, I'll not care either way. What matters is how I die.' 'And how will that be?' 'Fighting for freedom and the lives of my companions, bana-madam.

Single Mind: If I love you with all my heart, she said, what will you give me? & then she stopped & said I didn't have to answer that because she was going to do it anyway.

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

And Chief Engineer Graham? He never even tried to leave his post at the controls. He simply stood there and watched as the water rose to engulf him: and reflected on how much better it was to enjoy ten seconds longer as a ship's engineer than live ten more years as a friendless, shore-bound relic. And then he died too, in the most contented moment of his life.

only it was too late by then. Far, far too late. To preserve the life of Captain Jonathan Herschell: the last of those wartime merchant sailors who had struggled to bring Highlander into the haven of Loch Fhadaig. And some of whom had survived every hazard the Devil had cast before them. Except for the Good People themselves. Of a quiet wee village called Laichy.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

I am your friend," Gous said. "I drank with you, didn't I?" Kline tried to nod but nothing happened. He could see the wrappings around Gous' hand staining with blood. "Besides," said Gous, "friendship is one thing, God another.

The war keeps taking pieces of me anyway. Makes the rest of me harder to hit.

For the first time in her short existence on this earth she saw the expression of a man who would give his life for her without a thought. In her eyes he saw the look of a woman who would die by his side rather than be alone. That is, after all, what she had trained for all those years. He grinned. "Pedna, let us kick some shank.

what purpose it serves?" "To bear the guilt of the people and remind us of the ongoing need of having Yahweh in our minds.