Quotes about Sacrifice

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.

But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.

Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and which seemed... to be taken lightly because it was being passed over for nothing more than the blood of bulls.

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.

Nothing worth having comes without a cost. A

When we suffer, it's always for somebody's saving—that issue is always hanging in the balance. It's not all about me; it's all about Jesus becoming known in this broken world.

Whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. (Matthew 16:25)

God loved me so much He sent His Son to take away the sins of the world. That's a heart that scales any mountain. Kicks down any doors. Relentlessly pursues us down darkened alleyways. God will do anything to reach me with His love - including sending His only beloved Son to the cross and raising Him to life again. Thanks to Jesus, I am a new creation. Eve didn't know what we know. She did not know how far God would go. But we do.

Right after that, Jesus added, "But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee" (Matthew 26:32). Jesus often tucked in little phrases like that. Continually, throughout his ministry on earth, he was letting people know that hope was on its way. He said things such as this: My body will be broken for you and my blood spilled for many for the forgiveness of sins, yet one of you is going to betray me.

Again Jesus cried out in a loud voice. Then he died. Then the curtain in the Temple split into two pieces. —MATTHEW 27:50—51