Quotes about Sacrifice

Often we try to offer God partial obedience. We want to pick and choose the commands we obey. We make a list of the commands we like and obey those while ignoring the ones we think are unreasonable, difficult, expensive, or unpopular. I'll attend church but I won't tithe. I'll read my Bible but won't forgive the person who hurt me. Yet partial obedience is disobedience.

If God never did anything else for you, he would still deserve your continual praise for the rest of your life because of what Jesus did for you on the cross. God's Son died for you! This is the greatest reason for worship.

Real worship costs.

If you want to be used by God, you must care about what God cares about;

No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening — it's painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way" (Hebrews 12:11 NLT).

The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the "I do" of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married.

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it.

Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power?

Givers for God disarm the power of money.