Quotes about Sacrifice
Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?
- John Piper
Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God.
- John Updike
Faith is not the price that buys God's blessing, it is the hand that receives His blessing. The price was paid for us by Jesus Christ on the cross
- Joyce Meyer
When we're not following God's will, our sacrifices aren't acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken before Him, walk with Him, know Him, and obey Him.
- Sarah Sundin
The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
- CS Lewis
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
- RC Sproul
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
- Jesse Jackson
When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.
- Desmond Tutu
Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.
- Ayn Rand
No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.
- Elisabeth Elliot
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
- Ernest Hemingway
How rude for the created to tell the Creator "I wasn't worth it. You didn't do a good job when you made me. I wasn't worth dying for." You don't get a choice! He's the one who gets to decide.
- Mark Lowry