Quotes about Sacrifice

Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.

I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.

There are no crown-bearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

When the crucified Jesus is called the image of the invisible God, the meaning is that THIS is God, and God is like THIS.

God allows himself to be humiliated and crucified in the Son, in order to free the oppressors and the oppressed from oppression and to open up to them the situation of free, sympathetic humanity.

For us Jesus does not merely place His fingers in the ears and say, "Be opened"; for us He does not merely say "Arise and walk." For us He has done a greater thing—for us He died.

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline -- who shirk the rigors and turn from the sacrifices -- do not qualify to lead.

James and John wanted the glory, but not the cup of shame; the crown, but not the cross; the role of master, but not servant.

What if...what if that is the price one has to pay for staying on? Perhaps that is how they look at it: perhaps that is how I should look at it too. They see me as owing something. They see themselves as debt collectors, tax collectors. Why should I be allowed to live here without paying?