Quotes About Sacrifice

Religion professor Albert Wolters, in Creation Regained, writes, "[God] hangs on to his fallen original creation and salvages it. He refuses to abandon the work of his hands—in fact, he sacrifices his own Son to save his original project. Humankind, which has botched its original mandate and the whole creation along with it, is given another chance in Christ; we are reinstated as God's managers on earth. The original good creation is to be restored."74

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them." —C. S. Lewis

God could have created us without loving us, but He would not have gone to the Cross without loving us.

When our sin reached its full horror, God's love was displayed in all its glory. If you doubt God's love for you, look at the cross.

Being saved from your sins is not about you giving to God; it's about God giving to you.

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The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man." —John Stott

This song is called 'To Be a Martyr for the Lord.' It's very popular in house churches.

El sacrificio era un intercambio de energía. Entregaban su fuerza vital a cambio de una comunicación íntima. Tanto los consumían las llamas de su fe que, de ser necesario, habrían entregado cuerpo y alma, y a menudo así lo hacían

You needed your whole self; and so you went and broke yourself, out of its grip, in pieces,painfully, because your need was great.

My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.

So where does one begin? With self-crucifixion. In effect, we go to our own funeral and bury the self-will so that God's will can reign supremely in our hearts. Our will has no power to do God's will until it first dies to its own desires and the Holy Spirit brings a fresh power within.

Marriage brings together not just a man and his wife but their children and their struggles. To suddenly drop the partner who has carried that load with you along life's journey for all these years for someone with no strings or worries attached is cruel. Marriage is not a commercial enterprise in which you replace a car you have tired of with another one.

Dragoste gratuit? nu exist?; dragostea este expresia cea mai costisitoare din lume. Dar lucrul minunat este c? pre?ul ei a fost pl?tit deja.

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the alter of a pretended tolerance. All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true.

The important thing to bear in mind is that you must face your willingness to die to yourself before you choose to walk down the aisle. Is this person the one for whom you are willing to die daily? Is this person to whom you say, "I do" also the one for whom you are willing to say, "No, I don't" to everybody else? Be assured that marriage will cost you everything.

The love of God shows us that God alone bridges the distance between him and us, enabling us to see this world through Calvary.

Living under the tremendous illusion that personal freedoms and freedom of speech are devoid of moral assumptions and responsibilities, we have bankrupted ourselves, so that honor, truth, and morality have been sacrificed at the altar of autonomy and self-worship.

The greater the involvement in another's life, the greater is the demand for sacrifice.

The service [Jesus] gave to humanity was given even when we least merited that sacrifice. There is a joy in service that transcends emotional temporariness.

I refer to the cross of Christ. The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt - self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, comfort over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.

PreÈ›ul pl?tit determin? câÈ™tigul obÈ›inut. ÎnÈ›elegem ce este dragostea doar când ne dedic?m ei.

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must take precedence over what I prefer. Your marriage, as your conversion, begins at the Cross.

Marriage is not a commercial enterprise in which you replace a car you have tired of with another one. The truth is that the new car will lose its appeal, too, to say nothing about yourself.