Quotes about Sacrifice

For the Christian one dislocating, self-impoverishing hour spent with a child living in a broken-down dump is worth more than all the burial mounds of rhetoric, all the enfeebled good intentions, all the mumbling and fumbling and tardiness of those Christians who are so busy cultivating their own holiness that they cannot hear the anguished cry of the child in the slum.

As Emile Leger said when he left his mansion in Montreal to go live in a leper colony in Africa, "The time for talking is over.

Freedom is the cornerstone of Christianity.

The signature of Jesus, the Cross, is the ultimate expression of God's love for the world. The church is the church of the crucified, risen Christ only when it is stamped with his signature; only when it faces outward and moves with him along the way of the Cross. Turned inward upon itself in bickering and theological hairsplitting, the church loses its identity and its mission.

He was not poor that we might be rich. He was not mocked that we might be honored. He was not laughed at so that we could be lauded.

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself.

The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.

The way of the Christian leader is not the way of upward mobility in which our world has invested so much, but the way of downward mobility ending on the cross.

Who can save a child from a burning house without taking the risk of being hurt by the flames? Who can listen to a story of loneliness and despair without taking the risk of experiencing similar pains in his own heart and even losing his precious peace of mind? In short: "Who can take away suffering without entering it?

We want to live as people chosen, blessed, and broken, and thus become food for the world.

Jesus promises a life in which we increasingly have to stretch out our hands and be led into places where we would rather not go.