James Martineau Quotes

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

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

Following Jesus means taking up one's own cross to accompany him on his path, an uncomfortable path that is not one of success or earthly glory, but which leads to true freedom, the freedom from selfishness and sin.

So it is that real, personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the altar. Instead, it is a willingness to put the animal in us upon the altar and letting it be consumed! Such is the 'sacrifice unto the Lord... of a broken heart and a contrite spirit,' (D&C 59:8), a prerequisite to taking up the cross, while giving 'away all [our] sins' in order to 'know God' (Alma 22:18) for the denial of self precedes the full acceptance of Him.

I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.

Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.

There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.

True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.

Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?

God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.

Do not be afraid to cast yourselves into the arms of God; whatever he asks of you, he will repay a hundredfold.

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

He is truly great that is great in charity. He is truly great that is little in himself, and maketh no account of any height of honor. And he is truly learned that doeth the will of God, and forsaketh his own will.

If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the bitter; all would please that came from Him.

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

Devotion is a tool to dissolve yourself into nothingness and become the very hand of the Divine.

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.

God always wants what's best for us, just as you want what's best for someone you really love. You put them before you, and God does that too. God puts us before His Son, who He sacrificed for our salvation. But the Son did it voluntarily because He has the love of the Father before us.

I was going to have to leave you anyway. Because I loved you too much to drag you down with me." My hand crept up to caress the rigid line of his jaw. "Why'd you change your mind?" I whispered. "After I calmed down a little and had a chance to think, I figured . . . I love you enough to try and deserve you. I would do anything, be anything, for you.

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.