Quotes about Sacrifice

A disciple realizes that it is his Lord's honor that is at stake in his life, not his own honor.

To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness.

The basis of prayer is not what it costs us, but what it costs God to enable us to pray.

Listen intently with your entire being until you hear the Bridegroom's voice in the life of another person. And never give any thought to what devastation, difficulties, or sickness it will bring. Just rejoice with godly excitement that His voice has been heard. You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it (see Matthew 10:34).

is of no value to God to give Him your life for death. He wants you to be a "living sacrifice," to let Him have all your powers that have been saved and sanctified through Jesus. This is the thing that is acceptable to God.

We have not dwelt enough on the tragedy of Calvary or on the meaning of redemption.

But it is better to enter into life maimed and lovely in God's sight than to be lovely in man's sight and lame in God's.

Be exhausted for God, but remember that He is your supply.

It is actually more important to be broken bread and poured-out wine in the area of intercession than in our personal contact with others.

God made His own Son to be sin that He might make the sinner a saint.

The danger we have is that we want to water down what Jesus said to make it mean something that aligns with our common sense.

The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet--that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.