Quotes about Sacrifice

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love -- every man works his oar voluntarily!

Upon this, Bernard went and sold all that he had. Now he was very rich, and with great joy he distributed his wealth to widows, to orphans, to prisoners, to monasteries, to hospitals, and to pilgrims, in all which St Francis assisted him with prudence and fidelity.

I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.

The Lord has a unique way of preparing His servants for His work. It's one that involves transformation. And transformation always involves emptying, suffering, and loss. Humanity's way is to hand you a method. Divinity's way is to hand you a cross.

An exhortation from one beggar to another: keep sacrificing. Keep losing. Keep laying your life down. Keep loving your enemies. Keep blessing those who despise you. Keep refusing to return fire upon those who bad-mouth you. Keep pouring your life into others, even if those people never acknowledge it and even if others never notice. Keep faithfully serving your Lord without looking back. Why? Because there is One who is watching. And only His opinion matters.

the One who touched lepers and dead bodies wasn't afraid of getting His holy hands dirty with the problems of this fallen world.

War is young men dying and old men talking

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

If we will not prepare to give all that we have and that all that we are to preserve Christian civilization in our land, we shall go to destruction.