Quotes about Sacrifice

O, we love an unknown lover when we love Christ.

To live on Christ's love is a king's life.

The worst things of Christ, His reproaches, His cross, are better than Egypt's treasures.

I find Christ to be Christ, and that He is far, far, even infinite heaven's height above man. And that is all our happiness. Sinners can do nothing but make wounds that Christ may heal them; and make debts, that He may pay them; and make falls, that He may raise them; and make deaths, that He may quicken them; and spin out and dig hells to themselves, that He may ransom them.

O, that we could put our treasure in Christ's hand, and give Him our gold to keep, and our crown.

what can ail faith, seeing Christ suffereth Himself (with reverence to Him be it spoken) to be commanded by it; and Christ commandeth all things.

am just like a man who hath nothing to pay his thousands of debt; all that can be gotten of him, is to seize upon his person. Except Christ would seize upon myself, and make the readiest payment that can be of my heart and love to Himself, I have no other thing to give Him.

As our dear Husband, in wooing his [church], received many a black stroke, so his bride, in wooing him, gets many blows, and in this wooing there are strokes upon both sides

When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes - 'time to save the world!'

God's response to the belittlement of his name, from the beginning of time, has been the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross.

Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.