Sacrifice To God Quotes

• If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

  Charles Studd

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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• Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Soul

  John Bunyan (1872). “The Complete Works of John Bunyan”, p.80

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• Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.

  Andy Murray

  Letting Go, Prayer, Sacrifice

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• As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.

  Aristotle

  Sacrifice, Offers

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.

  Philip Neri

  Heart, Sacrifice, Holocaust

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.8, St Athanasius Press

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• I resolved to dedicate all my life to God, all my thoughts, and words, and actions; being thoroughly convinced, there was no medium; but that every part of my life (not some only) must either be a sacrifice to God, or myself, that is, in effect, to the devil. Can any serious person doubt of this, or find a medium between serving God and serving the devil?

  John Wesley

  Sacrifice, Serious Person, Doubt

  John Wesley (1830). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Christian perfection”, p.366

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• When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sacrifice, Men, Leaving

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...”, p.365

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• You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

  S. D Gordon

  Prayer, Kneeling, Praying

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• You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Soul

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• The goal of human freedom is not in freedom itself, nor it is in man, but in God. By giving man freedom, God has yielded to man a piece of His Divine authority, but with the intention that man himself would voluntarily bring it as a sacrifice to God, a most perfect offering.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Sacrifice, Men, Offering

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• In prayer, it is better to have heart without words, than words without heart. Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin entice a man to cease from prayer. The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Heart, Sacrifice

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.659, Delphi Classics

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• When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled employment becomes just a settled habit of prayer.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Situations In Life

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• Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Rome

  "John Dominic Crossan's 'blasphemous' portrait of Jesus". Interview with John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 27, 2011.

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