Quotes about Sacrifice

God instituted sacrifice not for His own sake but for our sake. The sacrificial law is a means to God's glorious end: it disciplines His people, focusing their attention on worship, gratitude, sorrow for sin, the need for purity, and the necessity of renouncing everything in order to cling to God.

If you want to mark your covenant with God, to seal your covenant with God, to renew your covenant with God, you have to eat the Lamb—the paschal lamb Who is our unleavened bread. It begins to sound familiar. "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, you have no life in you" (Jn 6: 54).

they can still think of their daily work as an offering, their desk or anvil or stovetop as an "altar" to God, and they can still offer their work

All of us are called to share God's life, and we must face our ordeal and choose God freely.

So we must continue to ransom the time, to restore all things in Christ.

The Mass, it seems, is like the Normandy invasion in the spiritual realm.

Why has God done the things that he has done in history? One word: Love.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country.

The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.

In My greatest hour of need, My closest friends deserted Me. Judas betrayed Me, Peter denied Me, and the rest fled for their lives. Only John followed from afar. I had cared for them for over three years, feeding them and teaching them. Yet as I died for the sins of the world, I forgave. I released all of them—from My friends who had deserted Me to the Roman guard who had crucified Me. They didn't ask for forgiveness, yet I freely gave it.

The more he cast away the more he had.