Quotes about Sacrifice
There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.
- Hudson Taylor
Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
- Thomas a Kempis
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
- Joseph Addison
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
- Martin Luther
Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.
- Abbie Hoffman
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
- Thomas Becket
That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.
- Oscar Romero
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
- Thomas Merton
All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.
- George Whitefield
Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?
- Albert Einstein
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
- Dorothy Day