Quotes about Sacrifice

There are no crown-bearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

When the crucified Jesus is called the image of the invisible God, the meaning is that THIS is God, and God is like THIS.

God allows himself to be humiliated and crucified in the Son, in order to free the oppressors and the oppressed from oppression and to open up to them the situation of free, sympathetic humanity.

For us Jesus does not merely place His fingers in the ears and say, "Be opened"; for us He does not merely say "Arise and walk." For us He has done a greater thing—for us He died.

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline -- who shirk the rigors and turn from the sacrifices -- do not qualify to lead.

James and John wanted the glory, but not the cup of shame; the crown, but not the cross; the role of master, but not servant.

What if...what if that is the price one has to pay for staying on? Perhaps that is how they look at it: perhaps that is how I should look at it too. They see me as owing something. They see themselves as debt collectors, tax collectors. Why should I be allowed to live here without paying?

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.

From the Book of Mormon we learn how disciples of Christ live in times of war.