Quotes About Sacrifice

Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.

Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray.

I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

Intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.

Now let me burn out for God.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.

Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong! Tell me, O Lord--tell me, O Lord, how long Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!

You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.

Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible.

God is wanting you to give Him the despised, the humdrum things in your life - like feet - and let Him make them beautiful.

I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.

God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.

Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.