Quotes about Sacrifice

They reminded us that the freedom struggle was not merely a question of making speeches, holding meetings, passing resolutions, and sending deputations, but of meticulous organization, militant action, and, above all, the willingness to suffer and sacrifice.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have

Drowning people sometimes die fighting their rescuers.

The Messiah has to fall as low as possible, otherwise he isn't the Messiah.

Either we serve God and use money or we serve money and use God.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.

Stranger, tell the Spartans that we behaved as they would wish us to, and are buried here.

Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having--viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life...

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.