Quotes about Sacrifice
and if someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
- Matthew 5:41
Then Jesus instructed him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift prescribed by Moses, as a testimony to them.”
- Matthew 8:4
Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
- Matthew 8:20
But Jesus told him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
- Matthew 8:22
But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
- Matthew 9:13
Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
- Matthew 10:37
and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.
- Matthew 10:38
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
- Matthew 10:39
If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
- Matthew 12:7
When he found one very precious pearl, he went away and sold all he had and bought it.
- Matthew 13:46
But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’
- Matthew 15:5
Then Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may faint along the way.”
- Matthew 15:32