Quotes about Sacrifice

The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.

You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.

I commend the parents who are sending their children to a Catholic school, because they're making a sacrifice, and they're paying twice for their child's education: They're paying the tuition, and they're paying taxes.

Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.

Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.