Quotes about Sacrifice
The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.
— Billy Graham
If I had 300 men who feared nothing but God, hated nothing but sin, and were determined to know nothing among men but Jesus Christ and Him crucified, I would set the world on fire.
— John Wesley
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
— DH Lawrence
At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.
— Os Guinness
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.
— Ignatius of Loyola
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
— Ayn Rand
The secret of the Christian's passion is simple: Everything we do in life we do it as to the Lord and not to men.
— David Jeremiah
Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.
— Charles Dickens
When a man and a woman give themselves to each other in an act of marital love, they can know the love of Christ as no one else can know it.
— J. Vernon McGee
God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.
— William Barclay
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer