Quotes about Sacrifice
Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
- Catherine of Siena
A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.
- Richard Wurmbrand
No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
- Martin Luther
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
- Jim Elliot
We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.
- Vernon Howard
The man who preaches the cross must be a crucified man.
- G Campbell Morgan
The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.
- Billy Graham
If I had 300 men who feared nothing but God, hated nothing but sin, and were determined to know nothing among men but Jesus Christ and Him crucified, I would set the world on fire.
- John Wesley
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
- DH Lawrence
At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.
- Os Guinness
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.
- Ignatius of Loyola