Quotes about Sacrifice
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
— Viktor E. Frankl
If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth.
— Loren Cunningham
The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.
— Martin Luther
It is better to lose your life than to waste it.
— John Piper
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Though I constantly take my life in my hands, I will not forget your law.
— Psalm 119:109
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
— Victor Hugo
I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...
— Vincent Van Gogh
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner.
— Max Lucado
It's been said thousands of times, in all faiths and philosophies. Know thyself. What may be less clear in these wise expressions is the reason we learn to know ourselves: we develop a knowledge of self so that we can give up the self and serve others.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
His confession is said to have taken three days to make, and he received absolution from one of the monks there. He exchanged his nobleman's dress for the simple outfit of a poor pilgrim and made a night vigil
— Margaret Silf