Quotes about Sacrifice
No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
— Oswald Chambers
Perfect love. It means love that goes on doing until there isn't any more to be done, and that goes on suffering until it can't suffer any more. That's why, when Jesus hung on the cross, He said, 'It is finished.' There wasn't one sin left that couldn't be forgiven, not one sinner who couldn't be saved, because He had died. He had loved perfectly.
— Patricia St. John
The cross is the place where we see love made perfect.
— Patricia St. John
in every moment when you are parenting, you are being parented. In every moment when you are called to give grace, you are being given grace. In every moment when you are rescuing and protecting your children, you are being rescued and protected. In every moment when you feel alone, you are anything but alone because he goes wherever you go.
— Paul David Tripp
he's not first working on your happiness; he's committed to your holiness.
— Paul David Tripp
It is vital to know that faith is not just an action of your brain; it's an investment of your life.
— Paul David Tripp
To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become what we were meant to be.
— Paul David Tripp
Grace doesn't make it okay for you to live for you. No, grace frees you to experience the joy of living for One greater than you.
— Paul David Tripp
The cost of forgiveness is great, but the harvest of forgiveness is a beautiful thing,
— Paul David Tripp
Real, biblical, self-sacrificing, God-honoring love never compromises what God says is right and true. Truth and love are inextricably bound together. Love that compromises truth simply isn't love. Truth without love ceases to be truth because it gets bent and twisted by other human agendas.
— Paul David Tripp
In the center of the kingdom of God, you do not find a gargantuan palace inhabited by an unapproachable king. No, in the center of the kingdom of God is a bloody cross, on which hung a broken King, who welcomes us as we are.
— Paul David Tripp
Christ's sacrifice satisfied the Father's anger so that, as his child, you will receive his discipline but need not fear his wrath.
— Paul David Tripp