Quotes About Sacrifice

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.

You may often see Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it. (Cf. Matthew 10:34)

Why has God left us on the earth? Is it simply to be saved and sanctified? No, it is to be at work in service to Him. Am I willing to be broken bread and poured-out wine for Him? Am I willing to be of no value to this age or this life except for one purpose and one alone—to be used to disciple men and women to the Lord Jesus Christ. My life of service to God is the way I say "thank you" to Him for His inexpressibly wonderful salvation.

You must be willing to be placed on the altar and go through the fire; willing to experience what the altar represents--burning, purification, and separation for only one purpose--the elimination of every desire and affection not grounded in or directed toward God. But you don't eliminate it, God does.

You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.

That Christ died for me, and therefore I am completely free from penalty, is never taught in the New Testament.

A disciple realizes that it is his Lord's honor that is at stake in his life, not his own honor.

The basis of prayer is not what it costs us, but what it costs God to enable us to pray.

Listen intently with your entire being until you hear the Bridegroom's voice in the life of another person. And never give any thought to what devastation, difficulties, or sickness it will bring. Just rejoice with godly excitement that His voice has been heard. You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it (see Matthew 10:34).

is of no value to God to give Him your life for death. He wants you to be a "living sacrifice," to let Him have all your powers that have been saved and sanctified through Jesus. This is the thing that is acceptable to God.

We have not dwelt enough on the tragedy of Calvary or on the meaning of redemption.

But it is better to enter into life maimed and lovely in God's sight than to be lovely in man's sight and lame in God's.

Be exhausted for God, but remember that He is your supply.

It is actually more important to be broken bread and poured-out wine in the area of intercession than in our personal contact with others.

God made His own Son to be sin that He might make the sinner a saint.

The danger we have is that we want to water down what Jesus said to make it mean something that aligns with our common sense.

God's grace produces men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not pampered, spoiled weaklings. It takes a tremendous amount of discipline to live the worthy and excellent life of a disciple of Jesus in the realities of life. And it is always necessary for us to make an effort to live a life of worth and excellence.

The atonement of Jesus must be exhibited in practical, unassuming ways in my life. Every time I obey, the absolute deity of God is on my side, so that the grace of God and my natural obedience are in perfect agreement. Obedience means that I have completely placed my trust in the atonement, and my obedience is immediately met by the delight of the supernatural grace of God.

Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.

Do we appreciate the miraculous salvation of Jesus Christ enough to be our utmost for His highest—our best for His glory?

At any cost, by any road" means nothing self-chosen in the way God brings us to the goal.

The transfiguration was completed on the Mount of Ascension. If Jesus had gone to heaven directly from the Mount of Transfiguration, He would have gone alone. He would have been nothing more to us than a glorious Figure. But He turned His back on the glory, and came down from the mountain to identify Himself with fallen humanity.

There is only one relationship that really matters, and that is your personal relationship to your personal Redeemer and Lord. If you maintain that at all costs, letting everything else go, God will fulfill His purpose through your life. One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purposes, and yours may be that life.

Our ordinary and reasonable service to God may actually compete against our total surrender to Him.