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Quotes About Sacrifice

I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.
~ Ignatius of Antioch
We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.
~ Janet Morris
God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.
~ John Piper
So often we don't give from our abundance. We give from what we have no use for. I have learned that God not only looks at what we give but also at what we keep.
~ Kathy Troccoli
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
~ Frank Knox
As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.
~ Aristotle
There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!
~ James A. Baldwin
We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.
~ Bill Hybels
The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.
~ Brian D. McLaren
If I'm doing something as an offering unto the Lord, I want to give God my best.
~ Stephen Kendrick
He who serves God with what costs him nothing, will do very little service, you may depend on it.
~ Susan Warner
God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.
~ Timothy Keller
God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.
~ Timothy Keller
The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
God himself took this human flesh upon him.
~ William Barclay
And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.
~ David Platt
Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.
~ E. Stanley Jones
I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.
~ Euripides
He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.
~ J. D. Greear
God pursues me, he sacrificed for me, and he calls me his beloved! And, not just me... all of us.
~ Jennifer Rothschild
It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
~ John Ortberg