Quotes about Sacrifice

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must take precedence over what I prefer. Your marriage, as your conversion, begins at the Cross.

Marriage is not a commercial enterprise in which you replace a car you have tired of with another one. The truth is that the new car will lose its appeal, too, to say nothing about yourself.

It is not goodness we are called to, but worship.

Worship is exclusionary. You cannot compromise on worship. Worship

if you have not learned to pay the smaller prices of following Christ in your daily life, you will not be prepared to pay the ultimate price in God's calling.

For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die . . .

The Jews did not kill Me.] First, no one could have taken My life if I had not willingly laid it down. Also, this is a fraudulent charge that is repeatedly reinvented. They alone did not kill Me--Romans, Greeks, people from everywhere in the world were gathered in Jerusalem on that day and participated in the events that took place. All of humanity must bear the blame for what happened.

Of all the enterprises in which the human heart engages, none lends itself more to abuse and manipulation than the activities of religion. For here, sacrifice and greed can meet in the most trusting and exploiting context.

Crucifixion: The Ancient World and the Folly of the Cross.

Redemption of your soul is the price that was paid to restore its original value that had been traded away for lawless things.

From then on, my longings, my hopes, my dreams and my every effort has been to live for Him, who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.

A heart that truly worships is a heart that gives its best to God in time and substance.