Quotes about Sacrifice
The deepest longings we feel on earth, as parents, as lovers, are mere flickers of the hungering desire God feels for us. It is a desire that cost him the Incarnation and the Crucifixion.
- Philip Yancey
sacrificial love is one of the most powerful weapons in the Christian's arsenal of grace.
- Philip Yancey
Because of Jesus we need never question God's desire for intimacy. Does God really want close contact with us? Jesus gave up Heaven for it.
- Philip Yancey
What seems like sacrifice becomes instead a kind of nourishment because dispensing grace enriches the giver as well as the receiver.
- Philip Yancey
The essence of Christian faith has come to us in story form, the story of a God who will go to any lengths to get his family back.
- Philip Yancey
Modern humanity does not perceive the world as worth God dying for. We Christians must demonstrate it.
- Philip Yancey
Grace is unfair, which is one of the hardest things about it.
- Philip Yancey
Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.
- Philip Yancey
C. S. Lewis said, "If you read history you will find out that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next… Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
- Philip Yancey
grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us.
- Philip Yancey
Jesus requires—no, demands—a response of forgiveness.
- Philip Yancey
We in the body of Christ are called to show love when God seems not to.
- Philip Yancey