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Quotes About Sacrifice

Do you want to see God more than you desire security?
~ Francis Chan
God calls us first... not to a platform, but to an altar!
~ J. D. Greear
Christ exhausted the cup of God's wrath. For all who trust in Him there is nothing more in the cup. It is empty.
~ Jerry Bridges
You think Jesus ever tried to talk God out of some of that stuff? 'Instead of that whole crucifixion, how about we do a big fundraiser!'
~ Jim Gaffigan
Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.
~ John Calvin
Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He's crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.
~ John Piper
Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.
~ Marsha Norman, 'night, Mother
Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.
~ Therese of Lisieux
God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.
~ Albert Gubay
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook.
~ Anne Sexton
It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.
~ C. S. Lewis
We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.
~ Cesar Chavez
The word of God teaches that Christians suffer in order that they might glorify God in their lives.
~ Billy Graham
In the pierced heart of the Crucified, God's own heart is opened up - here we see who God is and what he is like. Heaven is no longer locked up. God has stepped out of his hiddenness.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
The Spirit is speaking strongly to me for you to place a $50 offering on the altar, when you do, God will do a now miracle.
~ Steve Munsey
Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.
~ Swami Vivekananda
When to the cross I turn my eyes,And rest on Calvary,O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,I must remember Thee.
~ James Montgomery
Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.
~ Janet Morris
The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.
~ John Stott