Quotes about Sacrifice

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage.

Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.

It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth or beauty that mattered. Happiness has got to be paid for. It hasn't been very good for truth of course. But it's been very good for happiness.

What about self-denial, then? If you had a God, you'd have a reason for self-denial.' 'But industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

When captured and brought to trial, many of those who had taken part in the Sabbath resolutely refused, even under torture, even at the stake, to abjure the religion which had brought them so much happiness.

One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for.

Love in action is harsh and dreadful when compared to love in dreams.

Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light a fire in the hearts of others. And it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much.