Quotes about Sacrifice

Years later it occurred to me that I was doing the same thing when I was helping my daughter memorize "Paul Revere's Ride." I was teaching her to love sacrifice and goodness and truth and beauty, and I was teaching her the history of America and therefore teaching her to love America.

If we think of the fatherhood of God, we get a picture of someone who is strong and loving and who sacrifices himself for those he loves. That's a picture of real fatherhood and real manhood.

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

An English revolution is at least a solemn sacrifice: a French revolution is an indecent massacre.

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.

The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.

You were there teaching me to squander, so that one day we might have nothing left except this love of You. But You are too good to me. When I ask You for Pain, You give me peace. Give it him too. Give him my peace-he needs it more.

He knew now that at the end there was only one thing that counted - to be a saint.

The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.

I know myself, and I know the depth of my selfishness. I cannot be at ease (and to be at ease is my chief wish) if someone else is in pain, visibly or audibly or tactually. Sometimes this is mistaken by the innocent for unselfishness, when all I am doing is sacrificing a small good - in this case postponement in attending to my hurt - for the sake of a far greater good) a peace of mind when I need think only of myself.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.