Quotes About Sacrifice

Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.

Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ

The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.

It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed

What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?

A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.

A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.

The man who forgives pays a tremendous price - the price of the evil he forgives.

Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.

So long as He lived among men, our Saviour shared the lot of the poor. He knew by experience their cares and hardships, and He could comfort and encourage all humble workers.

It's better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can't be yours, then never to love at all.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.