Quotes about Sacrifice

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

Believers are also trained in obedience by means of the cross. For thus they are taught to live according to God's will rather than their own. If everything went according to their own plans, they would never know what it means to follow God.

The ultimate purpose of all sacrificial killing was to lead us to Christ; it was a testimony to the salvation of our souls in Christ, which alone is eternal.

For, the counsel of God confronts us with the truth that the Righteous One was delivered to death for our sins, and his blood was our ransom from death.

The apostle teaches us that nothing from us will please God, unless we are purged by the blood of Christ.

Let, therefore, everyone who has shared in all the benefits which Christ has conferred upon us know that his whole life ought to conform to the death of Christ.

I have told you that it is I. Here we see how the Son of God not only submits to death of his own accord, that by his obedience he may blot out our transgressions, but also how he discharges the office of a good Shepherd in protecting his flock.

Priests are set up by the pope and his followers to sacrifice Christ, not to teach the people.

But Christ offered himself as a sacrifice for men's eternal redemption and he alone officiated in that priestly act.

So also we, if we are to give ourselves wholly to Christ, must break away from all the entanglements of this world.