Quotes about Sacrifice

Why should He have to suffer on behalf of humanity? Nomoral imperative required God to sacrifice His Son. He would be no less holy or righteous if He allowed the race of sin-sick humans to suffer the just consequences of their own rebellion. Nothing compelled Jesus to complete the mission—nothing, that is, except love for the people He had made and obedience to His Father.

Faith is doing what God tells us to do, even when His instructions appear dangerous or might cause us to experience loss or suffering.

All her questions, all the fatigue and nausea and swelling and pain, vanished the moment she held her son.

God is not interested in making me comfortable or happy. His goal is to make me holy, like His Son. And

There is no greater power on earth than a mother's love, unless it is a mother's guilt.

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.

If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to keep His commandments, and to do His will.

I don't want a monument. We don't build monuments; we build God's Kingdom.

Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit; everything, just a little bit, so when they brok its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.

When I woke up I reminded myself that freedom is never free. You have to fight for it. Work for it and make sure you are able to handle it. Now