Quotes about Sacrifice
Many people assume that being a Christian means you follow all the rules and have your life together. They assume that "Christian" equals "good person"—when the opposite is true. The gospel is not about what we can do for God (good advice), but what God has done for us (good news). Jesus lived a perfect life precisely because we can't.
- Mark Clark
When the Bible speaks of love, it measures it primarily not by how much you want to receive but by how much you are willing to give of yourself to someone. How much are you willing to lose for the sake of this person? How much of your freedom are you willing to forsake? How much of your precious time, emotion, and resources are you willing to invest for this person?
- Mark Dever
The fundamental response to God's radical love for us is for us to radically love him.
- Mark Dever
Once you have seen and felt your ideal future, you will be ready and able to pay any price to get there.
- Jim Rohn
Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal.
- Louie Giglio
When we come to Christ, we're no longer the most important person in the world to us; Christ is. Instead of living only for ourselves, we have a higher goal: to live for Jesus.
- Billy Graham
The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
- Bill Hybels
Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
- Jonathan Edwards
I'd rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England, out of the will of God.
- David Livingstone
The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels.
- Kathryn Kuhlman
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.
- Rose of Lima