Now they have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?
the Western Powers & Japan
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people.
That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
I exist because I am expendable. In all honesty, it's because if I get hurt, I can be replaced.
Their throats were bare for God.
My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'
In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.
The dues of discipleship are high indeed, and how much we can take so often determines how much we can then give.
Keeping you [alive] is no profit; losing you is no loss.
We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.
If the team needs you, you need to sacrifice.
My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.
By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!
Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.
I love to set up my teammates. I am not here to be a star, to show off. I am here to play for the others, but if I have to try and clinch a game, then I will.
Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.
Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it.
He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive. He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.
