Quotes about Sacrifice
Hard as things seem today, they will be better in the next day if you choose to serve the Lord this day with your whole heart.
- Henry B. Eyring
I don't take any money from my ministry. I'm not on salary. My husband supports me.
- Anne Graham Lotz
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
- John Calvin
Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.
- Charles Spurgeon
For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself
- Karl Barth
God's love toward us commends itself in this, that Christ died for us while we were still weak, still sinners, still godless, still enemies. It has therefore not waited for us, but has come to meet us and gone before us.
- Karl Barth
He reconciles them with God through His death. That means that in His own death He makes their peace with God--before they themselves have decided for this peace and quite apart from that decision. In believing, they are only conforming to the decision about them that has already been made in Him.
- Karl Barth
To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.
- JC Ryle
I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.
- Jim Elliot
The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.
- Timothy Keller
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.
- CS Lewis