Quotes about Sacrifice
This is nothing, Walks the Fire. My anger came when you would not speak of your sadness.I thought you longed for the whites,that you cared nothing for us,that you feared telling me.To have many sons would be a wonderful thing. I cannot lie about that.But if having many sons means I must take another woman, then I would choose no sons and keep Walks the Fire in my tepee.Your heart cries out for children....my heart cries out only for you,best-beloved.
— Stephanie Grace Whitson
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
— Michelle Obama
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
— Oscar Wilde
Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.
— Phillips Brooks
Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
— Vernon Howard
The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer afraid of the truth.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
— Pablo Picasso
God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.
— John Wycliffe
According to the Burman system, there is no escape. According to the Christian system, there is. Jesus Christ has died in the place of sinners, has borne their sins; and now those who believe on Him, and become His disciples, are released from the punishment they deserve. At death, they are received into Heaven and are happy forever.
— Adoniram Judson