Quotes about Sacrifice

Authentic followers of Christ follow Him in the midst of a hostile and toxic environment.

Somtimes when you know the right thing to do, you simply have to do it, even though it breaks your heart.

I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father's love that He had no ambition of His own. He was not looking to build an empire, He did not want praise or adulation or to impress people with who or how many followed Him. He stopped over and over again for just one person, for just one life.

This bride will give up the selfish riches of this world to inherit the earth. She will be so ruined and wrecked by love that she will run full force into the darkness. This will cause His light through her to explode into the world—all for love's sake.

A new breed of ministers is rising up who will not wear out for the gospel. They are so caught up in passion, unity, and fullness that they run out and say, "World, here I come!" If they go into places where they get shot at, they are thrilled. If they do not get shot at, they are thrilled. If the place they go is filthy, they are thrilled. If it is clean, they are thrilled. Jesus is the joy set before them. He is their exceedingly great reward.

When I held Beatrice, I caught scabies and lice. But it didn't matter. My only goal is to love more.

Even if I could only bring Him one little grape, I knew that grape was precious to Him because I had worked my whole life for it.

When I find myself drawn away from my priesthood duties by other interests and when my body begs for rest, I give to myself this rallying cry: "Remember Him.

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.