Eric Metaxas Quotes

The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all.

My prayer, my sacrifice, my life and my death is all for Allah, The Lord of The Worlds.

Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don't always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth.

The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.

A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life.

A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know.

The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.

My guys are morally weak, and they reach toward a tenuous knowledge of self-sacrifice, and sometimes it's too late. I find that moving. It's not a life I'd want to live. But, then, I'm not completely my books.

The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross.

Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.

I would rather die for Christ than rule the whole earth.

Sacrifice is the very essence of religion; ... Without sacrifice there is no true worship of God.

If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination