Quotes about Sacrifice

In the final analysis, the only available options are either to reject the cross and with it the core of the Christian faith or to take up one's cross, follow the Crucified-and be scandalized ever anew by the challenge.

To give to God is to take from God's right hand and put that very thing back into God's left hand.

Living toward a world in which these identities no longer divide, but living in a world fundamentally structured by them, Paul takes up and lays down various identities for the sake of the gospel. Though free, he has made himself a slave. For the sake of the gospel, he lives sometimes as one under the Jewish law, other times as one free from it—all while recognizing the truth of his situation as one no longer under "the law" but nevertheless under "Christ's law.

Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for

We need to learn how to deny ourselves, so we can do that which does not come naturally—to truly love God and others.

We know Jesus was God. But He was also a man-He got tired; He got hungry; He knew what it was to have crowds pressing around Him all the time; He knew what it was to have His privacy invaded. But He kept right on letting the crowds into His life. He kept on teaching, healing, confronting the powers of hell- and never a cross or impatient word.

SERVICE, Sacrifice and Self-Control are three words which must be well understood by the person who succeeds in doing something that is of help to the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson had this truth in mind when he said (in his essay on Compensation), "If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer

Life has no bargains. Everything that you get that's worthy of having has a price upon it.

What! Giving again?" I ask in dismay. "And must I keep giving and giving away?" "Oh no," said the angel looking me through, "Just keep giving till the Master stops giving to you!

The whole human race, beginning with Eve, comes from Adam's wounded side. A second race--a new redeemed humanity--comes from Jesus' wounded side. Jesus is the second Adam. Even before there is despair, God foreshadows hope. The creation of the woman is a sacred, holy moment.

Jesus' final act of public ministry was to address the needs of a widow, his own mother, whose eldest son was dying before her very eyes.