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Quotes about Sacrifice

If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.
- Eugene Peterson
Resurrection does not have to do exclusively with what happens after we are buried or cremated. It does have to do with that, but first of all it has to do with the way we live right now. But as Karl Barth, quoting Nietzsche, pithily reminds us: "Only where graves are is there resurrection." We practice our death by giving up our will to live on our own terms. Only in that relinquishment or renunciation are we able to practice resurrection.
- Eugene Peterson
To live no tight, neat role is truly sacrificial, it is also truly creative because it leaves us open and free (dare we say) like God himself.
- Eugene Peterson
The cultivation of consumer spirituality is the antithesis of a sacrificial, "deny yourself" congregation.
- Eugene Peterson
What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever trade your soul for? "If any of you are embarrassed over me and the way I'm leading you when you get around your fickle and unfocused friends, know that you'll be an even greater embarrassment to the Son of Man when he arrives in all the splendor of God, his Father, with an army of the holy angels.
- Eugene Peterson
Premature praise is false praise. Praise is our end but not our beginning. We begin our lives crying, not smiling and cooing and thanking our parents for bringing us into this lovely world full of dry diapers and sweet milk and warm flesh. We kick and flail. We yell and weep. We have the popularization of a kind of religion that, instead of training people to the sacrificial life after the pattern of our Lord, seduces them into having fun on weekends.
- Eugene Peterson
Anyone signing up for the kingdom of God has to go through plenty of hard times.
- Eugene Peterson
God did not become a servant so that we could order him around but so that we could join him in a redemptive life.
- Eugene Peterson
I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not "mine," but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.—Galatians 2:20
- Eugene Peterson
The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His.
- Eugene Peterson
What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?
- Eugene Peterson
Relinquishment is prerequisite to fulfillment.
- Eugene Peterson