Quotes about Sacrifice

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue Who would not be that youth What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country

What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.

Some of us try desperately to hold on to ourselves, to live for ourselves. We look so bedraggled and pathetic doing it, hanging on to the dead branch of a bank account for dear life, afraid to risk ourselves on the untried wings of giving. We don't think we can live generously because we have never tried. But the sooner we start the better, for we are going to have to give up our lives finally, and the longer we wait the less time we have for the soaring and swooping life of grace.

When people realize it is the living God you are presenting and not some idol that makes them feel good, they are going to turn on you, even people in your own family. There is a great irony here: proclaiming so much love, experiencing so much hate! But don't quit.

If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.

Resurrection does not have to do exclusively with what happens after we are buried or cremated. It does have to do with that, but first of all it has to do with the way we live right now. But as Karl Barth, quoting Nietzsche, pithily reminds us: "Only where graves are is there resurrection." We practice our death by giving up our will to live on our own terms. Only in that relinquishment or renunciation are we able to practice resurrection.

To live no tight, neat role is truly sacrificial, it is also truly creative because it leaves us open and free (dare we say) like God himself.