That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because they were mine!" said Ford, crossly. I think we have different value systems." Well mine's better.
Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.
I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?
I don't have a problem with dying but I have a problem with what I'm going to die for. I don't want to die for no reason at all. If I'm going to die for something, I want it to be worthwhile.
The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.
There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.
