Quotes About Sacrifice

But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the very last penny.”

At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.

Large crowds were now traveling with Jesus, and He turned and said to them,

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.

In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.

“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ëCome at once and sit down to eatí?

Instead, wonít he tell him, ëPrepare my meal and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you may eat and drinkí?

So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ëWe are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.í”

When Jesus saw them, He said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were on their way, they were cleansed.

But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.

Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire.í

On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

But when the ruler heard this, he became very sad, because he was extremely wealthy.

Seeing the manís sadness, Jesus said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

Indeed, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

“Look,” said Peter, “we have left all we had to follow You.”

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God

will fail to receive many times more in this age—and in the age to come, eternal life.”