Quotes about Sacrifice
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.
— Robert Barron
The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.
— Alexander Hamilton
When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.
— NT Wright
Every call of Christ leads into death.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.
— CS Lewis
Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.
— AW Tozer
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
— Joseph Campbell
A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
— Barack Obama
Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
— Philip Yancey
Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.
— Philip Yancey