Quotes About Sacrifice

It may be literally said that he was a man of one idea, and that was, love, to Jesus, and a desire to manifest it in all its varied forms.

Don't take away the power of the sacrifice he made by doubting it or wishing it away.

I would do anything for you, Carly Collins. And that'll be true until the day I die.

Allah desires that you die in his name (Qur'an 3:169-70; 9:39; 19:70-72); Yahweh died for you to have abundant life in his name (John 10:10).

A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

I do know that I fell in love with the moment of falling in love and I wanted to keep that moment alive forever, at the expense of all those moments to follow.

A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

Some creatures live as stars do: burn hard and hot, feeding on those nearby but primarily upon themselves. Their lives an inferno and them happiest in that heat. Eating away at themselves until all that remains is appetite.

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

This last journey itself teaches the disciples that to follow Jesus means to walk the way of the cross. Jesus speaks sharply to halting, halfhearted followers. The way of discipleship is costly: it demands total commitment, complete devotion and allegiance to Jesus and the kingdom of God (Luke 9:57–62). "Whoever wants to be my disciple," Jesus says, "must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me" (9:23; cf. 14:27).

If we believe that God wants us happy above all else, rather than acknowledging that our role is to serve God, we wrongly believe that God exists to serve us. God becomes a a means to our end: happiness.

If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're jeopardizing your relationship with God, the only thing that's eternal.

Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.

God's blessings, however, aren't always bigger, better, and beautiful. In fact, I truly believe that God gifts His chosen leaders with a very unusual blessing. You might even call it a weird blessing because most of the time we call it...a burden.

He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as an impoverished Jewish carpenter so He could shed His blood, suffer, and die for the forgiveness of our sins.

How do you think your life might change if you prayed daily a daring, faith-filled prayer of whole-life devotion to the one who gave it all for you?

When you start to avoid what hurts you, what happens? Over time, your spiritual side grows stronger. And your selfish side starts to die.

You must long for God more than normal. You must be willing to live to give, not live to gain.

It's the things no one sees that result in the things everyone wants.

Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his body food so he could pray and seek the God of heaven.

Instead of sacrificing for the cause of Christ, people appeared to be consuming, not contributing.

Extreme measures bring extreme results. If you want a normal life, do what normal people do. If you want to know God intimately, walk with Him daily, and please Him in every way, you're going to have to do what few do. Absolutely nothing.

To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we're going to have to be willing to get our hands dirty, to make some sacrifices that provides long-term benefits instead of short-term, refinanced gains. God is willing to help us, to provide the tools we need to weed out those areas where our desire for money is spoiling our fruit of the Spirit.

Instead of seeking to serve one another, we wrongly believe that there's one person out there who exists solely to make us happy.