Quotes about Sacrifice

In a Christian marriage, Atretes, the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, he himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so you will be subject to Christ, and so also Rizpah will be subject to you in everything. Love her, just as Christ also loves you and gave himself up for you. Sacrificially, willing even to die for her. Love her as you love your own body. Sustain and protect her in all circumstances.

Did Honoring mean to do everything you were told without question? Did it mean swift capitulation? Did it mean giving up yourself for the sake of living out someone else's dreams? No matter what that dream was?

I never thought it would be easy to serve God, she said. I just didn't think it would be this hard.

Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

What terrible things we do to those we love!

Better a dry morsel and quietness than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.

Organic church life, however, is a wedding of glory and gore.

Jesus Christ paid the price for our eternal salvation through the shedding of His blood on Calvary's cross for all men—equally.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?