Quotes About Sacrifice

When our flesh stops trying, when it is thoroughly crushed and broken, His purposes for our lives are unhindered, and we bring true glory to His name. First Peter 2:23 (NIV) tells us, "When they hurled their insults at [Jesus], he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly.

The secret to following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

Abortion is one of the most shocking, yet entirely logical, extensions of this obsession with comfort, convenience and luxury. Less dramatic, but just as deadly to millions of lost souls in our world, is our unwillingness to make even small sacrifices to reach them with the Gospel.

Real Christians accept suffering as a normal part of following Christ, just as mothers accept labor as a normal part of delivering a baby. "No pain, no gain" applies to world evangelism as well as exercise programs! Until we can accept suffering, sacrifice and self-denial as routine and normal, we will never see the Great Commission fulfilled in our generation.

When we learn to run to it and embrace it, when we can plan habitually to go without things for Christ's sake, then we've begun to live the life of reasonable service: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service" (Romans 12:1).

All of this beauty comes because we are broken. We no longer have anything to fight for because our lives have been crucified with Christ. We no longer have anything to boast in because our outer man is crushed, our strength is done away with, our reputation insignificant. It is only Christ within us that matters now. And it is only Christ within us, in all His beauty and grace, who can be seen now. His living water is free to flow out of us and bless others.

When we give away our rights and surrender our wills, when we give our obedience, our return is "good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

MacLeish wrote. He harshly criticized Soviet tyranny, but lamented the fact that so many Americans were willing to sacrifice their civil liberties in the name of anticommunism.

He harshly criticized Soviet tyranny, but lamented the fact that so many Americans were willing to sacrifice their civil liberties in the name of anticommunism.

i shall see you soon, my love. Be strong, and do not hate me for being so cold. they must not see that i love you or it would mean sure death to both of us

all my love, my pain, my passion were to be sacrificed for something greater, and yet i could not convince myself that i had mad the right choice.

I am rewarding you, and I am punishing you. For a reward for your courage, your bravery, you will never die. And for punishment, for having seen what cannot be seen, you will never return to this place.

For love though, and for the sake of the world, I'll do it.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Humanity will be gone. No. I won't allow that. I can't allow that. Whatever it takes. Even if it kills me.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Every death is a burst of fuel I use to stoke the fires that sit inside me. But it's more than anger. It's love too. It's the fact that I care about the people who will die if I don't do this.", FADE by Kailin Gow

I don't know what that thing is, but I know you aren't it. You care too much about the world and the people in it. All that cared about was killing.", Jack Simple to Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow

It isn't every day that you get to save the world.", FADE by Kailin Gow

There are some things that it is worth taking risks to protect. It all means too much. Too much for us now. Too much for the future. Too much for everything.", FADE by Kailin Gow

I want you to have this. It's the key to my heart." He pressed it into my hands. "You have my heart already, you might as well have everything else." - Collins McGregor in Saving You Saving Me by Kailin Gow.

I know what I have to do. I have to protect my family in the only way that they can be protected right now. I have to play the part I was meant to play. I have to be the person the Underground tried to Fade me into being.", Celestra Caine from FADE by Kailin Gow

The observance of communal traditions involves a constant sacrifice of the individual to the state.