Quotes about Sacrifice
The key to endurance in the cause of self-sacrificing love is not heroic willpower, but deep, unshakable confidence that the joy we have tasted in fellowship with Christ will not disappoint us in death.
— John Piper
Genuine love is the glad effort to make others glad in God forever. Genuine love is being willing to suffer and die to draw as many people as we can into the pursuit and enjoyment of God.
— John Piper
There never has been a greater act of love than that Jesus laid down his life to save sinners (John 15:13; Rom. 5:6-8).
— John Piper
The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.
— John Piper
The Calvary road with Jesus is not a joyless road. It is a painful one, but it is a profoundly happy one. When we choose the fleeting pleasures of comfort and security over the sacrifices and sufferings of missions and evangelism and ministry and love, we choose against joy.
— John Piper
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)
— John Piper
If we desire that there be no boasting except in the cross, then we must live near the cross-indeed we must live on the cross.
— John Piper
Living to magnify Christ is costly.
— John Piper
If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life.
— John Piper
The problem is not a battle between contemporary worship music and hymns; the problem is that there aren't enough martyrs during the week. If no soldiers are perishing, what you want on Sunday is Bob Hope and some pretty girls, not the army chaplain and a surgeon.
— John Piper
The cross witnesses to the infinite worth of God and the infinite outrage of sin.
— John Piper
Always you renounce a lesser good for a greater; the opposite is what sin is. . . . The struggle to submit . . . is not a struggle to submit but a struggle to accept and with passion. I mean, possibly, with joy. Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy—fully armed too as it's a highly dangerous quest. FLANNERY O'CONNOR The Habit of Being
— John Piper