Quotes about Sacrifice
When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.
— Timothy Keller
The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory
— John Calvin
Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
— Timothy Keller
The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.
— Timothy Keller
Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
— Peter Kreeft
In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.
— JI Packer
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
— Edith Stein
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
— Euripides
God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.
— Bill Hybels
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
— Cicero
The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom.
— Pope John Paul II