Quotes About Sacrifice

The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.

We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. Probably less.

And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

For us military men, it is impossible to forget.

But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.

In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There's a special punishment Christians would suggest.

When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.

A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain.

She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else.

As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.

For when down on the knees The man (or god) stretches the arms In giving, It is no accident the hands Are curled like bowls or cups, For he offers self, yet Begs it back again.

Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.