Quotes about Sacrifice

Every church, yea, every truth and every good cause, has its martyrs, who stood the fiery trial and sacrificed comfort and life itself to their sacred convictions. The blood of martyrs is the seed of toleration; toleration is the seed of liberty; and liberty is the most precious gift of God to every man who has been made in his image and redeemed by Christ.

Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

Love deems this world worth rescuing.

A service beyond all recompenseWeighs so heavy that it almost gives offense.

Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

You, my friend, are society. So welcome to the club of community, and even though some may try to drown out other styles of discourse with shouts about personal rights, the community may have a thing or two to say, and it may say it a lot louder. After all, community can only progress when its individuals exercise higher moral choices, and community is sacrificed when individuals choose with only themselves in mind.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.