Quotes about Sacrifice

True preaching is the sweating of blood. —DR. JOSEPH PARKER

There is a love constraining me To go and seek the lost; I yield, O Lord, my all to Thee To save at any cost!

Dead to the world and all its toys! Its idle pomp and fading joys! Jesus, my glory be!

The price is high. God does not want partnership with us, but ownership of us.

To make my weak heart strong and brave, Send the fire. To live a dying world to save, send the fire. Oh, see me on Thy altar lay My life, my all, this very day; To crown the offering now, I pray: Send the fire! —F. de L. Booth-Tucker

The cost might be prison, for it were better that he should be ''the prisoner of the Lord'' for a few years than that his fellow men should be the devil's prisoners in hell forever.

Yet again in writing to a friend of John Smith he says, "I have often seen him come downstairs in the morning after several hours in prayer, his eyes swollen with weeping. He would soon introduce the subject of his anxiety by saying, 'I am a brokenhearted man; yes, indeed, I am an unhappy man, not for myself but on account of others. God has given me such a sight of the value of precious souls that I cannot live if souls are not saved. Oh give me souls, or else I die!

The man whose little sermon is ''repent'' sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a man—''off with his head!' You had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to heaven. —JOSEPH PARKER

If you aren't smelling awful smells sometimes, then you're not where Jesus is.

If you've never bled, you have no material for preaching. If when you're finished preaching you're not finished, spent, wiped out — if you haven't "given blood" — you haven't really preached.9

There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams. Many

Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.