Quotes about Sacrifice

Jesus' call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.

Some men are willing to die for their faith, but they are not willing to fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us.

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

An inch to a man's heart is a mile to his wallet.

Take my heart and squeeze it out over the face of Your Bride, the Church.

Notice that, in making ourselves available, we are not doing God any favors. We give ourselves for God's use to benefit creation, not to benefit God.

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.