Quotes About Sacrifice

If you want to become that close to 'God', die instead.

You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .

You can't do God's will and satisfy everyone.

Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.

May God deny you peace but give you glory!

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.

A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts.

If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.

God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us.

So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.

The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

Whom God would use greatly He will hurt deeply.

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!

Pray daily to be used by God, sacrifice personal needs and so greed has to go out of the window. Because you have to believe God can take care of you so you don't have to worry about that.

To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.

For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.

If there is a God, the King of kings, there is also a Kingdom. If there is a Kingdom, there must also be an army. Now the question is, are you in this army and are you willing to fight for your King?

I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.

If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

When we choose to obey God and give our bodies to our husbands—even if we don't feel like it—God will reward us with pleasure.

Grace doesn't obsess with ourselves. It obsesses with people and with brokenness. This is a hard place to live, but God is bigger than hard places to live.