Quotes about Sacrifice
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
Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?
— John Piper
Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God.
— John Updike
Faith is not the price that buys God's blessing, it is the hand that receives His blessing. The price was paid for us by Jesus Christ on the cross
— Joyce Meyer
When we're not following God's will, our sacrifices aren't acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken before Him, walk with Him, know Him, and obey Him.
— Sarah Sundin
The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
— CS Lewis
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
— RC Sproul