Quotes about Sacrifice

Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear.

Present-day Christians misinterpret the cross when they make it a nonoffensive religious symbol, a decorative object in their homes and churches. The cross, therefore, needs the lynching tree to remind us what it means when we say that God is revealed in Jesus at Golgotha, the place of the skull, on the cross where criminals and rebels against the Roman state were executed. The lynching tree is America's cross.

Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people."

How do we navigate and process painful biases and conflicting emotions and press on to be sacrificial and suffer in the struggle? And what do we do with images and depictions that, known or unknown to those perpetuating them, may contribute to the impediment of human progress?

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

I thank all missionaries, men and women who quietly work hard for the Lord and their brothers and sisters.

Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy.

Our debt to our men and women in uniform is eternal, always will be. To all of those who have served our nation, I say so strongly that I will never, ever let you down.

Even though they (women) grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families - all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

The greatest warriors fight not for crowns and splendor, but for love.

The only place you will find love before sacrifice is in the dictionary.