Quotes About Sacrifice

As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum, Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.

If we only understood that when we devote our lives to the glory of God, our existence on planet earth will leave marks---eternal marks.

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.

God Himself was crucified with Christ, for Christ was one with the Father.

A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.

If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.

I think we should all be servants. To be really great in God's eyes is to be least among each other and serve each other.

Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.

Victory will be ours soon, Iraqis will strike the necks as God has commanded you.

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.

The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.