Quotes about Sacrifice

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

People who do nothing but fall in love are perhaps more serious and saintly than those who sacrifice their love and their hearts to an idea.

You must not go there in too anemic or enervated a condition, if you set a value on coming out of it stronger. I do not consider it a great misfortune for you to be obliged to be a soldier, but rather as a very serious trial from which you will emerge - if you emerge at all - a very great artist.

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.

Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.

It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put Jesus on the cross - it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer His death.

Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death.