Quotes about Sacrifice

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.

So long as we are adopted by God in Christ, we are destined for slaughter. If

Although brethren die for brethren, yet no martyr's blood is shed for the remission of sins: this Christ did for us, and in this conferred upon us not what we should imitate, but what should make us grateful," (August. Tract. in Joann. 84).

May we be prepared, whatever happens, rather to undergo a hundred deaths than to turn aside from the profession of true piety, in which we know our safety to be laid up. And may we so glorify thy name as to be partakers of that glory which has been acquired for us through the blood of thine only-begotten Son. Amen.

we must realize that death was not a pleasure or a game for Christ, and that he suffered excruciation to the utmost for our sakes.

Whoever wishes to have the half of Christ, loses   the whole.