Quotes about Sacrifice

but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

Then each of them was given a white robe and told to rest a little while longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers, were killed, just as they had been killed.

They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.

Jesus didn't wait until we got better to die for us. He died when we were in our most unlovely state. The person who doesn't deserve love actually needs love more, not less. If you know someone unworthy of love, that's great! You now have a chance to emulate Christ, because the essence of His love is unconditional.

He told me I could go on being a lost sinner, living my life as I chose, ignoring the offer of eternal life and the peace that only God could give me. But, he told me, You will literally have to step over the broken, bleeding, nail-pierced body of Jesus in order to enter the gates of hell.