Quotes About Sacrifice

We feast on a sacrifice at our spiritual altar, but those who serve as priests in the old system of worship have no right to eat of it. 11 For the high priest carries the blood of animals into the holiest chamber as a sacrifice for sin, and then burns the bodies of the animals outside the city. h 12 And Jesus, our sin-sacrifice,

ABOUT PHILIPPIANS What joy and glory came out of Paul's prison cell! Most of us would be thinking of ourselves and how we could get out; but Paul wanted to send to the Philippian church the revelation of joy!

Has this year made me a better lover? Will I understand something of hardship, of loss, will a lover sense this in my kiss or touch? What do I know of redemption or sacrifice, what will I have to say of the dead - that it was it worth it, that any of it made sense? I have no words to speak of war.

In 1968, an average of 45 Americans died in Vietnam every day.)

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war.

Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

I think, that love endures, but that it isn't everything, and it isn't ever what we want it to be...

Everything comes with a price. Everything. Some things just cost more than others.

Peter's face clouded. "Everything comes at a price. Or have you not learned that yet?

If the girl could only have spoken to the other boys and girls, the ones that had followed the golden-eyed boy before her, she would have known that there is always something left to lose.

Death has come to cut your throats and drink your blood!

For the world is a hard place and nothing comes without a price.

There is so precious little magic left in this world . . . so little. Why must your ambitions come at such a cost?

You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.

To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of heaven, is as if the groveling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

God told us to go. He didn't promise that we would come back." Butros

One of the students was a doctor, a German woman, and I used to watch her scouring garbage pails as though she were preparing a room for surgery.

I thought that I would never reach for it again without remembering the old granny in front of me now, standing almost on tiptoe, squinting as she strained to see the words in the Bible her son held aloft.

She began by reminding me of the scriptural injunction that the ox grinding the corn must not be kept from enjoying the grain. Did I think God felt less about His human workers? Hadn't I better examine myself to be sure I was not nursing a Sacrificial Spirit? Wasn't I claiming to depend upon God, but living as if my needs would be met by my own scrimping?

I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for what will benefit me, dreaming of all I can be. Life is all about my relationship with God. There is no higher calling, no loftier dream, and no greater goal than to live, breathe, and be poured out for Jesus Christ." --Jamie in Brother Andrew's "The Calling