Quotes about Sacrifice

God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight, I'll fight to the very end!

Love is taking a few steps backward (maybe even more)...to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts; then it is real and pure.

When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Our god is the thing, or person, which we think most precious, for whom we would make the greatest sacrifice, and who moves our heart with the warmest love. He is the person or thing that if lost would leave us desolate.

The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.

Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.