Quotes about Sacrifice
Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?
- David Platt
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
- Desmond Tutu
Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.
- Desmond Tutu
Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God is not free from human beings but for them.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.
- Elie Wiesel
Virginity is something that can be offered to God.
- Elisabeth Elliot
If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn't draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)?
- Francis Chan
I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.
- Frank Herbert
Sacrifice is the very essence of religion; ... Without sacrifice there is no true worship of God.
- Gordon Hinckley
All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
- Herman Melville
Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!
- Herman Melville