Quotes about Sacrifice
Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.
- John Calvin
Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He's crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.
- John Piper
God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.
- AW Tozer
We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.
- AW Tozer
We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.
- AW Tozer
It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.
- CS Lewis
The word of God teaches that Christians suffer in order that they might glorify God in their lives.
- Billy Graham
In the pierced heart of the Crucified, God's own heart is opened up - here we see who God is and what he is like. Heaven is no longer locked up. God has stepped out of his hiddenness.
- Pope Benedict XVI
The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.
- John Stott
Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.
- Max Lucado
Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.
- Philip Yancey