Quotes about Sacrifice

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Every day, you are to offer your life to God for His service. You do not serve Him in your spare time or with your leftover resources. The way you live your life for God is your offering to Him.

Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.

I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life.

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?

Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which God Himself undertakes on our behalf.

The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.

We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.