Quotes about Sacrifice
The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.
— Horatius Bonar
Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put Jesus on the cross - it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer His death.
— Billy Graham
Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.
— Robert Barron
The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.
— Alexander Hamilton
When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.
— NT Wright
Every call of Christ leads into death.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.
— CS Lewis
Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.
— AW Tozer