If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
– CT Studd –
Sacrifice
The Fullness of Christ – Charles Spurgeon
You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything else.
– Charles Spurgeon –
A price to pay to follow Jesus – Dennis Curtis
Are you saying that there is a price to pay to follow Jesus? I can’t just believe the right things? I have to actually do something that may encroach upon my comfort zone? Now I remember! I am to pick up my cross daily if I want to be His disciple.
– Dennis Curtis –
Success and Sacrifice – Adoniram Judson
There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.
– Adoniram Judson –
Christmas is an exchange of gifts – Vance Havner
Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man—His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God—when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
– Vance Havner –
Consider the Cross of Christ – Amy Carmichael
When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice?
– Amy Carmichael –
Reckless abandon for the Lord – Elisabeth Elliot
I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Redemptive work always has suffering – Elisabeth Elliot
There is, in fact, no redemptive work done anywhere without suffering.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Real Christianity – Catherine Booth
Show the world a real, living, self-sacrificing, hard-working, toiling, triumphing Christianity, and the world will be influenced by it; but anything short of that they will turn round and spit upon.
– Catherine Booth –