Quotes about Sacrifice
Christian faith, which is at its heart about self-giving—God's self-giving and human self-giving—and not about self-imposing.
— Philip Yancey
Often a work of God comes with two edges, great joy and great pain, and in that matter-of-fact response Mary embraced both. She was the first person to accept Jesus on His own terms, regardless of the personal cost.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus gave a vivid object lesson his last night with the disciples by washing their feet, like a servant. Parents know the self-giving principle by instinct as they pour their energies into their self-absorbed children. Volunteers in soup kitchens and hospices and mission projects learn this lesson by doing.* What seems like sacrifice becomes instead a kind of nourishment because dispensing grace enriches the giver as well as the receiver.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus did not eliminate evil; he revealed a God willing, at immense cost, to forgive it and to heal its damage.
— Philip Yancey
If I take Easter as the starting point, the one incontrovertible fact about how God treats those whom he loves, then human history becomes the contradiction and Easter a preview of ultimate reality.
— Philip Yancey
We should leave a worship service asking ourselves not "What did I get out of it?" but rather "Was God pleased with what happened?
— Philip Yancey
we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." And "he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
— Philip Yancey
The deepest longings we feel on earth, as parents, as lovers, are mere flickers of the hungering desire God feels for us. It is a desire that cost him the Incarnation and the Crucifixion.
— Philip Yancey
sacrificial love is one of the most powerful weapons in the Christian's arsenal of grace.
— Philip Yancey
Because of Jesus we need never question God's desire for intimacy. Does God really want close contact with us? Jesus gave up Heaven for it.
— Philip Yancey
What seems like sacrifice becomes instead a kind of nourishment because dispensing grace enriches the giver as well as the receiver.
— Philip Yancey
The essence of Christian faith has come to us in story form, the story of a God who will go to any lengths to get his family back.
— Philip Yancey