Quotes about Sacrifice

The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.

... Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

remarked: [I]f our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements , etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.4

Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only all you have, but all you are.

home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die." 1 Kings 17:8—12

may seem unreasonable—that the blood of

if you are true to the leading of the Holy Spirit, you will have to do things that humble you, make you appear as a wimp, and do things that nobody will admire.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

I walked away from a lot, I could have stayed in the industry in some capacity and had a fairly cushy income, and I chose to follow God. If it happened all over again, I would do that same thing.