Quotes about sacrifice
sacrifice people generosity
Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices. Pope Francis
sacrifice helping-others good-times
Lent is a good time for sacrificing. Let us deny ourselves something every day to help others,
sacrifice moral importance
If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it. Peter Singer
sacrifice simple soul
God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but from false service, the mere display of material wealth, He turns away. Philo
sacrifice soul trying
Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God. Mother Teresa
sacrifice self clothes
Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.
sacrifice earth sake
Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on. Victor Hugo
sacrifice summit ifs
where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?
sacrifice one-day gains
Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
sacrifice fighting battle
When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy. You fight to keep him alive, and he fights to keep you alive, and you go on that way, day after day, battle after battle. And when one of your buddies dies, something inside you dies as well. But you go on. You fight, so that his death isn't meaningless, his sacrifice isn't for nothing. Richard Marcinko
sacrifice men self
It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism. Thomas de Quincey
sacrifice past legacy
Let us not only remember the past and its required sacrifice, let us also remember that we are responsible to build a legacy for the generations which follow us. Thomas S. Monson
sacrifice trials stones
Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They are sanctified by sacrifice and service.
sacrifice selfishness doctrine
One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale. Thomas Sowell
sacrifice simple common-sense
Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all recognize this in our daily lives. It is only in politics that this simple, common sense fact is routinely ignored.
sacrifice endure impression
Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression. Robert Musil
sacrifice would-be three
I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be. Sarah Hughes
sacrifice culture demand
The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends. Roger Scruton
sacrifice people comfort
Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts. Sandra Bernhard
sacrifice peculiar doctrine
The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation. Samuel Johnson
sacrifice compromise companionship
In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise. Richard Russo
sacrifice suffering energy
All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least. Richard Gere
sacrifice generosity uncommon
The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage. Tullian Tchividjian
sacrifice athletic skating
It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me. Vera Wang
sacrifice careers trying
I was trying my best to just stop that ball from going over the fence, I'd sacrifice my body if I have to. I've done that my whole career. Torii Hunter
sacrifice evil giving
It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil. Veronica Roth
sacrifice self selflessness
...there is power in self-sacrifice.
sacrifice dedication self
Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love. Vince Lombardi
sacrifice men smell
An honest god is the noblest work of man. ... God has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably found on the side of those in power. ... Most of the gods were pleased with sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine perfume. Robert Green Ingersoll
sacrifice may pleasure
Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.
sacrifice simple six
Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it? Sam Worthington
sacrifice our-veterans giving
We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was. Most of all, we remember the devotion and gallantry with which all of them ennobled their nation as they became champions of a noble cause. Ronald Reagan
sacrifice america people
As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will not surrender for it - now or ever.