Quotes about Sacrifice
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I will never forgive Joe for that awful operation he had performed on Rosemary. It is the only thing I have ever felt bitter toward him about.
— Rose Kennedy
In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".
— Pope John Paul II
Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
— Jonathan Edwards
No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.
— Martin Luther
You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
— Khalil Gibran
Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.
— Vance Havner
But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.
— Millard Fillmore
Oh that God would humble me deeply in the dust before Him! i deserve Hell every day for not lovingmy Lord more, who has, i trust, loved me and given Himself for me.
— David Brainerd
If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.
— AW Tozer