Quotes about Sacrifice

You and I were created for more than filling up our schedules with the self-satisfying pursuits of personal pleasure.

The God of love sent the Son of His love to rescue us from the bondage of self-love so that we could be free to love others

Grace forces you to feel the pain of your regrets, but never asks you to pay for them, because the price has already been paid by Jesus.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

Listen to the present tense gospel in the words of Galatians 2:20: "I have been crucified with Christ [a statement of historical redemptive fact]. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me [a statement of present redemptive reality]. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me [living in light of the gospel right here, right now].

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his own soul?" (Mark 8:36).

You were put here for the purpose of the glory of another. This is not a lifestyle option; it is in the very nature of your humanity. To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become what we were meant to be.

Success is not about how well I've been able to build my own little kingdom but about the degree to which I've done all I've done in the service of a greater

Your obedience is never to be done in the hope that you will get something, but rather in recognition of what you have already been given.

We would prefer to lob grenades of truth into people's lives rather than lay down our lives for them. But this is exactly what Christ did for us. Can we expect to be called to do anything less?

God, who loves us enough to sacrifice his Son for our redemption, works so that we would see ourselves clearly, so that we would not buy into the delusion of our own righteousness, and so that with a humble sense of personal need we would seek the resources of grace that can only be found in him.

This is grace: the King died to dethrone kings so that he would be their King forever and ever and ever.