Quotes about Sacrifice

Instead of sacrificing for the cause of Christ, people appeared to be consuming, not contributing.

Extreme measures bring extreme results. If you want a normal life, do what normal people do. If you want to know God intimately, walk with Him daily, and please Him in every way, you're going to have to do what few do. Absolutely nothing.

To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we're going to have to be willing to get our hands dirty, to make some sacrifices that provides long-term benefits instead of short-term, refinanced gains. God is willing to help us, to provide the tools we need to weed out those areas where our desire for money is spoiling our fruit of the Spirit.

Instead of seeking to serve one another, we wrongly believe that there's one person out there who exists solely to make us happy.

The road to committed faith is paved with personal abandonment and self-denial. Life ceases to be about us, and it begins to be all about God.

We can give away all that He entrusts to us in the same spirit of generosity.

When it comes to the church what has your answer been? Has it been no? Has it been, "Well, maybe, if I have time"? Or has it been an unconditional yes? Imagine how your life might change if you were willing to say to your church and to God, My answer is yes. Anything. Anywhere. Anytime. Use me as your church and for your glory.

The question is: Will you choose the pain of discipline or the pain of regret?

We find our lives when we give them away.

Our family has agreed to increase the percentage of what we give each year. Instead of increasing our standard of living, we're increasing our standard of giving.

Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

'It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the last words of Jesus. 'It is finished' is a cry of victory.