Quotes About Sacrifice

Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage. He offered us, not an excursion, but an execution. Our Savior said that we would have to be ready to die to self, sin, and the world.

Hebrews 11:25).

Don't ever take God's judgment lightly—and don't ever take sin lightly. God doesn't take them lightly—and the proof is that they cost His dear Son His life.

Have you ever seen a person who was receiving a blood transfusion? The blood was precious, life-giving, and certainly not repulsive. The blood of Christ may seem to be a grim and repulsive subject . . .[but] the blood of Christ is precious.

Blood is the symbol of the life sacrificed for sin.

Once for all God made complete and perfect provision for the cure of man's sins; without the blood of Christ, it is indeed a fatal disease.

In His thirty-three years on earth, Jesus suffered with man; on the cross He suffered for man.

Blood is mentioned 460 times in the Bible. Fourteen times in the New Testament Jesus spoke of His own blood. Why? Because by the shedding of His blood, He accomplished the possibility of our salvation.

The distinctive feature of Christianity is blood atonement. Without it we cannot be saved. Blood is actually a symbol of the death of Christ.

Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage; not to a frolic, but to a fight. He offered us not an excursion, but an execution.

Jesus suffered more than any other person in human history.

Today] there is less emphasis on redemption by the blood of Christ.

Though the cross repels, it also attracts. It possesses a magnetic quality.

Today the idea of the shed blood of Christ is becoming old-fashioned and out of date in a lot of preaching. It is in the Bible. It is the very heart of Christianity.

Peter preached about [the blood]. Paul wrote about it, and the redeemed in heaven sing about it. In a sense, the New Testament is the Book of the Blood.

To take up your cross means to associate yourself with Christ and to share His rejection. It means you take a stand for Christ even though people make fun of you, persecute you—or even kill you!

Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.

To suffer for the faith is not a penalty; it is a privilege.

A real Christian is the one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Christ not only died for all: He died for each.

Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.

My life is a gift from the Creator. What I do with it is my gift to the Creator.

All gave some, Some gave all.