Quotes About Sacrifice

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death? With Christ? Because it's the only way that God can get glory out of a human being!

In all things seek to know God's Will and when known obey at any cost.

And once by God, I was a Marine!

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

There is nothing small in the service of God.

All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.

Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.

If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

Gods have bloody hands.

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you.

Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.

Being on a mission-not thinking about myself and focusing on serving other people-is what brought me closer to God than anything else.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

I now understand more of our calling. The weakest instruments are chosen to do the greatest works so that the glory might go to God.

The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.