Quotes about Sacrifice
He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.
- Charles Spurgeon
Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.
- Charles Spurgeon
Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.
- Charles Spurgeon
Son of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.
- Charles Spurgeon
The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.
- Charles Spurgeon
It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed
- Charles Spurgeon
So long as He lived among men, our Saviour shared the lot of the poor. He knew by experience their cares and hardships, and He could comfort and encourage all humble workers.
- Ellen White
No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
- Ernest Hemingway
I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.
- George Eliot