Quotes about Sacrifice

God buries His workmen, but not His work.

Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either".

If you could work your way to heaven, you would said look what I did, I got myself here by my good works. The only way you are going to make it is to come to that Cross.

Surely love is both work and wages.

Work without love is slavery.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.

We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.

Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.

Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!

My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, she would give that son to God. That was a perfectly appropriate thing for her to do, but as I observe, she did not have to tell me she had made such a promise. In particular, she did not have to tell me when I was six.

God is simply taking you where you do not want to go to produce in you what you could not achieve on your own.