Quotes about Sacrifice

In Your death I would live daily; in Your life I would die daily.

I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life in love to others.

We ought not to please ourselves. For even Christ pleased not Himself. Self-denial is the law of his life.

The condition for obtaining God's full blessing is absolute surrender to Him.

And we — you, my reader, and I — may have the privilege of offering ourselves to God to labor in prayer and bring down these blessings to this earth.

We often speak about how we should remain in Christ, but we forget that this means we must remain in a crucified Christ.

Thank You, Jesus, that through the cross You gave me unconditional access to the throne of God.

By His death He proved that He possessed life only to hold it, and to spend it, for God.

The more I understand and contemplate Jesus' surrender of Himself for me, the more do I give myself again to Him. The surrender is a mutual one: the love comes from both sides. His giving of Himself makes such an impression on my heart, that my heart with the self-same love and joy becomes entirely His.

He considered Himself to be the servant of God for the men whom God made and loved.

Beware of only saying, "Christ was crucified for me"; say, too, "I am crucified with Christ." (See Galatians 2: 20.) The one thing for which He lives in you is to breathe His own likeness into your nature, to impart to you His own crucifixion spirit, to give you the blessed disposition that made His sacrifice so well pleasing to the Father. Do accept the whole Christ as dwelling in you.

Beware of only saying, "Christ was crucified for me"; say, too, "I am crucified with Christ." (See Galatians 2: 20.) The one thing for which He lives in you is to breathe His own likeness into your nature, to impart to you His own crucifixion spirit, to give you the blessed disposition that made His sacrifice so well pleasing to the Father. Do accept the whole Christ as dwelling in you.