Quotes about Sacrifice
When God stirs our spirit or breaks our heart, we cannot sit back. We've got to step up and step in. We've got to go all in by going all out. But if we have the courage to make the choice or take the risk, it will become the defining moment of our lives.
- Mark Batterson
We want everything God has to offer without giving anything up.
- Mark Batterson
Jesus didn't carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word.
- Mark Batterson
If you go all in and all out for the cause of Christ, there will be setbacks along the way. But remember this: without a crucifixion there can be no resurrection! And when you have a setback, you do not take a step back, because God is already preparing your comeback.
- Mark Batterson
Going all in is following in the footsteps of Jesus wherever they may lead us
- Mark Batterson
Nothing belongs to us, not even ourselves. But the exchange rate is unbelievable. All of our sin is transferred to Christ's account, and all of His righteousness is transferred to our account. God cancels our debt, writes us into His will, and calls it even!
- Mark Batterson
God-ordained dreams aren't just born. They are reborn. If they become more important to you than God, you have to sacrifice them for the sake of your soul. You have to put them on the altar and raise the knife. And once the dream is dead and buried, it can be resurrected for God's glory.
- Mark Batterson
Jesus didn't die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous.
- Mark Batterson
Put your Isaac on the altar! Then, and only then, will you see what God can do. He cannot give back what you do not give up. But if you surrender yourself to Him, He will provide the ram in the thicket.
- Mark Batterson
Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.
- Mark Batterson
Jesus could have aborted his redemptive mission with one call for angelic backup. But Jesus wasn't trying to save himself. He was trying to save you.
- Mark Batterson
But Paul knew that his sin was nailed to the cross, and the hammer of God's mercy has no claw.
- Mark Batterson