Quotes about Sacrifice
It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.
— David Platt
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
— Joseph Campbell
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
— Teresa of Avila
This is what the kingdom of God looks like. It looks like humility. It looks like grace. It looks like service. It looks like Jesus.
— Gregory Boyd
Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.
— AW Tozer
Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.
— Joyce Meyer
Shouldn't we just admit the obvious--that the New Testament call to discipleship, compassion, and giving leaves no room for the way many of us are thinking and living? Is it time to get beyond the theoretical stance of 'I'd be willing to give up anything if God asked me to,' and start actually giving up things in order to do what He's commanded us?
— Randy Alcorn
When he found one very precious pearl, he went away and sold all he had and bought it.
— Matthew 13:46
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
— AW Tozer
Our devotion must culminate in a conscious yielding of every part of our personality, every ambition, every relationship, and every hope to Him. This done, we have reached the apex of personal devotion
— Kent Hughes
So he had them into the slaughter house, where was a butcher killing a sheep. And behold, the sheep was quiet and took her death patiently. Then said the Interpreter, You must learn of this sheep to suffer, and put up wrongs without murmurings and complaints. Behold how quietly she takes her death! And without objecting she suffereth her skin to be pulled over her ears. Your King doth call you his sheep.
— John Bunyan
He wasn't just calling them into a life of sacrifice. He was calling them into a life of meaning, even the kind of meaning that would involve suffering. Suffering for a redemptive reason is hardly suffering, after all.
— Donald Miller