Quotes About Sacrifice

Romans 8:32 may be the most important verse in the Bible, because it establishes the unshakable connection between the greatest event in the universe and the greatest future imaginable: "He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

When God put Christ in our condemned place, he did this not only to secure heaven, but to secure holiness. Or even more precisely, not only to secure our life in paradise, but also to secure our love for people.

Therefore everything that you enjoy in Christ - as a Christian, as a person who trusts Christ - is owing to the death of Christ.

Now we see that every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.

no se consiguen ni la salud ni la santidad a base de escapar de la gente que está pereciendo. El camino del amor, por enlodado y peligroso que sea, es el camino a la salud mental y al cielo.

You have God- and all that he is for you in Jesus.

Lord, let me make a difference for You that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

May our light shine in this world so that people see you in our sacrificial deeds of love and our compromising words of truth and give glory to your hallowed name, Father

If you want to fight sin by taking bread away from your own mouth, then put it in the mouth of the poor. Then we will see if you are really fasting for righteousness'sake.

Christ is to be cherished, not just chosen.

If we live twenty-nine years or if we live ninety-nine years, would not any hardships be worth the saving of one person from the eternal torments of hell for the everlasting enjoyment of the glory of God?

What does it mean to be a Christian? Charles Hodge, one of the great nineteenth-century Reformed theologians, sees the answer in this text: "It is being so constrained by a sense of the love of our divine Lord to us, that we consecrate our lives to him."6

Labor, therefore, to fill your hearts with the cross of Christ . . . that there may be no room for sin.

A Christian is one who recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, as God manifested in the flesh, loving us and dying for our redemption; and who is so affected by a sense of the love of this incarnate God as to be constrained to make the will of Christ the rule of his obedience, and the glory of Christ the great end for which he lives.

May the one thing that you cherish, the one thing that you rejoice in and exult over, be the cross of Jesus Christ.

If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?

Jesus prophesied that "In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God." (John 16:2)

The Bible also affirms that in the end times God's people will be martyred by beheading. "And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands." (Revelation 20:4)

God's people will be martyred by beheading. "And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands." (Revelation 20:4)

a.) Jesus will deny that He ever claimed to be the Son of God; b.) Jesus will "espouse the cause of the Mahdi" and will "follow him"; c.) Jesus will serve "Allah Almighty"; and d.) Jesus will slaughter those on the earth who remain faithful to His words in the Bible.

When a nation's land is soaked with innocent blood, the only method of assuaging God's anger is the shedding of the blood of the bloodshedders.