Quotes about Sacrifice

It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.

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.

Death cannot keep back love; love is stronger than death. The meaning of Good Friday and Easter Sunday is that God's path to human beings leads back to God.

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.

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.

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?

When he found one very precious pearl, he went away and sold all he had and bought it.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

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

But you must not slaughter an ox or a sheep on the same day as its young.