Quotes About Sacrifice

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret.]

There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.

You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?

Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.

Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.

I don't have a problem with dying but I have a problem with what I'm going to die for. I don't want to die for no reason at all. If I'm going to die for something, I want it to be worthwhile.

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

My mum gave up so much to have me, and now I want to repay her.

"They've been trying to test on animals for the past 50 years. Nobody's come up with a cure,"he says. "If you want to test on somebody, test on me."

Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

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

I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?

It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.

Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.

Jesus wants to make us holy at all costs. . .He offers you continual proof of this.