Quotes About Sacrifice

Death is not big thing, what is important is God's service.

Give sacrificially. We don't like risky faith. We like to have our safety net below us. But we miss the adventure of seeing God provide when we've really stretched ourselves in giving.

Give voluntarily. When we catch a vision of God's grace, we will give beyond our duty.

Who are you going to live for - yourself or God?

If you ever have to sacrifice something good, have faith that God will reward you with something GREAT

God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain.

Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.

All service is the same with God.

Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.

The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain.

Worship is an endeavor to bring to God that which costs you something.

Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?

God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.

Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.

God is not free from human beings but for them.

I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.

God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.

The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that He might sympathize with the lowly.

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

Virginity is something that can be offered to God.

So mothers have God's license to be missed.

...if God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn't draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)?

I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.