Quotes about Sacrifice

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it.

The natives used to tie their enemies to the tree. The ants would eat them alive.

The measure of love isn't how much you want someone. It's revealed in what you want for them.

Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness — sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

That's the price of love," I said. "The risk of losing it. But it's worth the risk.

The cost of love is the risk of losing it." But it's always worth it. After all, in the end, what else is there?

Love is never convenient-and rarely painless

The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.

Think what great love Christ has showed unto us, and how little we have deserved, and this will make our hearts to melt and be as pliable as wax before the sun.

Christ came down from heaven, and emptied himself of majesty in tender love to souls; shall we not come down from our high conceits to do any poor soul good? Shall man be proud after God hath been humble?

He died that he might heal our souls with a plaster of his own blood, and by that death save us, which we were the procurers of ourselves, by our own sins.