Quotes about Sacrifice
What is the New Testament? A handbook for those who are to be sacrificed.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.
— George Eliot
The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.
— Henri Nouwen
The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nothing important happens in life without a cost.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.
— Billy Graham
You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for.
— Maya Angelou
Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.
— Alice Walker
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For what has thou given up thy goods, thy ease, thy friends, thy reputation, thy country, thy life?'
— John Wesley
Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.
— Ann Voskamp
Peor and Baalim forsake their temples dim.
— John Milton