Sacrificial Love Quotes

• Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

  Adam Hamilton

  Jesus, Sick, Vision

  "The Bible and Congressman Broun" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do.

  Richelle Mead

  Love, Truth, Loving Someone

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• The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death was only a good example if it was more than an example, if it was something absolutely necessary to rescue us. And it was. Why did Jesus have to die in order to forgive us? There was a debt to be paid — God himself paid it. There was a penalty to be born — God himself bore it. Forgiveness is always a form of costly suffering.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Order, Lovely

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• So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Mean, Love Is, Self

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• The world is always waiting for someone to save the day, make things better. We've lost hope in politics, preachers. ... As a child of God, I just believe that Jesus is our hero, he is the one that came to save man's life, to save man's soul, to restore people back to themselves with a love that's real - an unconditional sacrificial love.

  Kirk Franklin

  Jesus, Children, Real

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• Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

  Paul the Apostle

  Husband, Wife, Body

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• Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer's, this means God's unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Love, Fall, Mean

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• Jesus doesn't say, "The religion founded in my name is the way, the truth, and the life, [and] what people say about me is the way." "Our way of worship, the Christian structure, is not the way," [he would say,] "I am. I am. If you want to know what life is all about, what it's supposed to be, where it's supposed to go, where it's supposed to derive its strength from, don't look at anything people say about me. Don't look at the faith that's been created. Look at my life, which is a life ultimately of sacrificial love."

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Jesus, Names

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love.

  Alistair Begg

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

  John Piper

  Sweet, People, Needs

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• It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

  Mia Hamm

  Sacrifice, Ifs, Love And Sacrifice

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• To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, War

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• As with every aspect of our sanctification, the renewal of the mind may be painful and difficult. It requires hard work and discipline, inspired by a sacrificial love for Christ and a burning desire to build up His body, the Church. Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, Hard Work, Mean

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• I encourage all of you to discover ever more fully in the Eucharist, the sacrament of Christ's sacrificial love, the inspiration and strength needed to work ever more generously for the spread of God's Kingdom and the growth of the civilization of love.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Inspiration, Civilization, Growth

  Pope Benedict XVI'a Address to The Members Of The Papal Foundation, w2.vatican.va. April 20, 2007.

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• I would hope that wherever I go I bring good news - that's what that word means, right? It began with the first followers of Jesus taking a Roman military propaganda term and co-opting it for their own subversive purposes, insisting that the world isn't made better through coercive military violence but through sacrificial love. How great is that!? Unfortunately this word has been hijacked in several years for other purposes but no worries, we're taking it back.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Military, Mean

  Source: missionaryrenegade2013.blogspot.com

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