Quotes about Sacrifice

You have to make sacrifices. You have to work out, to be relaxed in your mind, to focus on what you're doing.

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.

The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.

You were there teaching me to squander, so that one day we might have nothing left except this love of You. But You are too good to me. When I ask You for Pain, You give me peace. Give it him too. Give him my peace-he needs it more.

He knew now that at the end there was only one thing that counted - to be a saint.

The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.

I know myself, and I know the depth of my selfishness. I cannot be at ease (and to be at ease is my chief wish) if someone else is in pain, visibly or audibly or tactually. Sometimes this is mistaken by the innocent for unselfishness, when all I am doing is sacrificing a small good - in this case postponement in attending to my hurt - for the sake of a far greater good) a peace of mind when I need think only of myself.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

Christ had died for this man too: how could he pretend with his pride and lust and cowardice to be any more worthy of that death than the half-caste

we handed him back his province and left our allies to be crucified and sawn in two. They were innocent. They thought we'd stay. But we were liberals and we didn't want a bad conscience.

The question that wins the world is not, how can we get our "morally superior" way enforced in the world? The question that wins the world, and the question that must define the individual and collective life of kingdom-of-God citizens is, how do we take up the cross for the world? How do we best communicate to others their unsurpassable worth before God? How do we serve and wash the feet of the oppressed and despised?

The love demonstrated on Calvary is the center of the gospel, for it reveals the beauty of God himself.