Quotes about Sacrifice
Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
— Philip Yancey
Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
— Philip Yancey
Love deems this world worth rescuing.
— Philip Yancey
Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.
— Adoniram Judson
As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.
— Philip Yancey
You, my friend, are society. So welcome to the club of community, and even though some may try to drown out other styles of discourse with shouts about personal rights, the community may have a thing or two to say, and it may say it a lot louder. After all, community can only progress when its individuals exercise higher moral choices, and community is sacrificed when individuals choose with only themselves in mind.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.
— Joseph Campbell
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
— Joseph Campbell
Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)
— Joseph Campbell
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
— Joseph Campbell
Giving birth is definitely a heroic deed, in that it is the giving over of oneself to the life of another.
— Joseph Campbell
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
— Joseph Campbell