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Friday, September 20th, 2024
the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Sacrifice'

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There is no rank in sacrifice.
Josephus Daniels, American Politician (1862-1948)
Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.
Charlie Dent, American Politician (1960-  )
Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
Bernadette Devlin, Irish Politician (1947-  )
I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.
Edward Dmytryk, American Director (1908-1999)
Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
Betty Dodson, American Educator (1929-  )
The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice.
Hugh Douglas, American Athlete (1971-  )
Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.
Georges Duhamel, French Novelist (1884-1966)
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Tryon Edwards, American Theologian
I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
Sam Ervin, American Politician (1896-1985)
I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
Edward Everett, American Statesman (1794-1865)
I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
Oriana Fallaci, Italian Journalist (1929-  )
There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.
Suzanne Farrell, American Dancer (1945-  )
I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
William Faulkner, American Novelist (1897-1962)
Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
Mike Ferguson, American Politician (1970-  )
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Charles O. Finley, American Businessman (1918-1996)
The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
Larry Flynt, American Publisher (1942-  )
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
Alan Dean Foster, Author (1946-  )
Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
Morgan Freeman, American Actor (1937-  )
The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.
Jerome Isaac Friedman, American Physicist (1930-  )
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
James Anthony Froude, English Historian (1818-1894)
 
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