Quotes About Sacrifice

The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much.

Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

Consecration is the act of continually separating myself from everything except that which God has appointed me to do. It is not a one-time experience, but an ongoing process.

The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.

The only way to be obedient to the heavenly vision is to give our utmost for God's highest, and this can only be done by continually and resolutely recalling the vision.

the New Testament view is that He took our sin on Himself not because of sympathy, but because of His identification with us.

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes.

Hemos nacido en este tiempo y debemos recorrer el camino hasta el final. No hay otro. Es nuestro deber permanecer sin esperanza de salvación en el puesto ya perdido. Permanecer como aquel soldado romano cuyo esqueleto se ha encontrado delante de una puerta en Pompeya que murió porque al estallar la erupción del Vesubio nadie se acordó de licenciarlo. Eso es grandeza. Eso es tener raza. Ese honroso final es lo único que no se le puede quitar al hombre

Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

It was with bitter hearts and deadly thoughts that we, the remnant of the Six Hundred, rode back, leaving the flower of the Light Brigade dead or dying before those murderous Russian guns; — and it was all done, all over, in five-and-twenty minutes — less than a fast up-wind fox-hunt would have taken at home!

And of how he would hang the throat of Patrasche with a collar of gold, and place him on his right hand, and say to the people, "This was once my only friend

HE CHOSE DEATH RATHER THAN UNFAITHFULNESS. HE KNEW NO BETTER. HE WAS A DOG.

Beltran does not heed that I am near. But I can watch him, follow him, guard him in his sleep—it is enough. I ask no more. I am only a dog—I dare to love, I dare not even seek to be loved in answer.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

And Sam—what did he do? He obeyed her, I should like to be sorry for him. But obedience was not a lover's part here. He hesitated, the golden moment hung hovering, the conductor cried "All aboard!" the train went, and there on the platform stood obedient Sam, with his golden moment gone like a butterfly.

I've said to my kids, 'I don't want you to think I jumped away from you and clicked my heels and said bon voyage. It wasn't like that at all. It just about destroyed me.'

He held his hands up again. "Subject dropped," he repeated. "I dropped it — look, there it goes, rolling across the floor.

We agreed that many a human life is sacrificed in sudden anger, because one or both the parties carry deadly weapons.

It was not the sorrow of the world that broke the heart of Christ, but its wickedness. He was equal to its sorrow ... He began by being the world's healer. But what broke him was its sin.

In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.

Só se é revolucionário quando se está disposto a deixar todas as comodidades para ir lutar em outro país.

THE MOTHER Hobby! What can she do? She cooks and she cleans. You gotta have a house to clean. You gotta have children to cook for. These are the terrible years for a woman, the terrible years. THE GIRL You mustn't feel too harshly against her daughter-in-law. She also wants to have a house to clean and a family to cook for. (THE MOTHER darts a quick, sharp look at THE GIRL-then looks back