Quotes About Sacrifice

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.

Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

Fasting keeps you sensitive to His (God) Spirit, enabling you to live holy.

Living God's way means putting away your self-centeredness and committing yourself to follow God's Word in spite of any feelings to the contrary.

If you don't believe God has forgiven you, you are actually saying that God needs to do more for your forgiveness, and that Jesus' sacrifice was not enough.

God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.

From all that dims Thy Calvary, O Lamb of God, deliver me.

God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

God put me on this earth to be a tool.

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.

You ought to marry someone who's willing to go anywhere for God. If they're not, they're out.

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

You cannot build God's reputation if you aren't willing to risk yours.

There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don't know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don't delay obedience.

The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.