Quotes about Sacrifice

Many deaths must go into us reaching that measure, many letting go's.

Though unconditional love has a price tag, what a bargain price it is for such a reward.

This is one of the magnificent paradoxes of the cross: You bring to the cross your weakness and you receive God's strength. You bring Him your sins and you receive His righteousness. You bring Him your sorrows and you receive His joy.

The ways of the world exalt themselves against God. They sometimes look rational and appealing to the most ernest disciple but Christ says to us then what He said to His disciples long ago, when many of them had given u pin disgust, Do you also want to leave me? If we answer as PEter did, Lord to whom else shall we go? Your words are words of eternal life, our rebel thoughts are captured once more. The way of holiness is again visible.

One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two fishes. "Let me have them," said Jesus. He asked for all. He took them, said the blessing, and broke them before He gave them out. I remembered what a chapel speaker, Ruth Stull of Peru, had said: "If my life is broken when given to Jesus, it is because pieces will feed a multitude, while a loaf will satisfy only a little lad.

You can become a channel and a source of great inner strength. But you must give up everything in order to gain everything. What must you give up? All that is not truly you; all that you have chosen without choosing and value without evaluating, accepting because of someone else's extrinsic judgment, rather than your own; all your self-doubt that keeps you from trusting and loving yourself or other human beings.

Only one life, it will soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last.

To live out God's plan for your life calls for you to discipline yourself…and your body. To push yourself. To deny yourself.

A mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and freely to God.

True biblical love is sacrificing, purifying, nurturing, and enduring.

We must pay a price if we are to become priceless.

It's easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.