Quotes about Sacrifice

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.

Have you ever wished you didn't have to give or serve?

If I am married to Christ, the core of my present life is not personal happiness, but spiritual purity.

If Christ is indeed the only prize worth living for, we need to ponder just how wonderful he is.

Father, Son, and Spirit were torn apart so that we might be united with them and with each other.

The call we have considered in this chapter is not just a call to ministry; it is a call to worship.

We enter relationships for personal pleasure, self-actualization, and fun. We want low personal cost and high self-defined returns. But God wants high personal cost and high God-defined returns.

Remember, Father, Son, and Spirit were torn apart when Jesus died so that we might embrace rather than exclude one another. We have to be willing to face conflict. God wants us to grow and this is a crucial place where growth often occurs. He wants to make us more like Christ