Quotes about Sacrifice

Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.

Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Freely we serve, because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in this we stand or fall

This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.

a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification

And, therefore, seeing he doth not intercede and pray for every one, he did not die for every one.

Sometimes taking up our cross is doing the thing in front of us, not the glamorous, high-risk thing afar off.

Have mercy, and forgive us, Father. We've saved our sacred images, but sacrificed Your image within our souls.

Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.

I said, "Mom…" "Yes?" "Thank you for all you do for me. For how much you work and change your schedule to be with me." "How did you know I did that?" "I just don't say thank you enough." She looked at me and her eyes filled. "Do you know why I do it, Eddie?" "Why?" "Because you're my greatest joy, Eddie. You're my joy.

But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't matter, that she was lucky to have my sister and me. If I pressed hard enough, she would add, "If I'd left, you never would have been born." I never had the courage to say: But you would have been born instead.