Spiritual Sacrifice Quotes

The difference between tithe and first fruit, first fruit is all of it. All of what? Well, if you want to bring God all of one day's salary, one week's salary or one month's salary, that's between you and God... I try to bring a month's salary, but at the very least every year I give God a week's salary.

There is the type of man who gives his life to earn the pleasure of Allah...

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

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

I don't believe a Christian has to sell his soul to the devil to vote for Donald Trump.

Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul

We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy for God.

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

A disciple said to him, "I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up?" The Master calmly replied, "One's beliefs about God.

The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

If following Jesus Christ doesn't cost you anything, it's because you've bought into 'American Christianity.'

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.

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.

No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.

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

Agrarian Anabaptists, Christian Scientists, and Samurai are among the rare examples of renunciation stemming from an unwillingness to sacrifice the spiritual qualities of community life. Evidently there is no separate salvation.

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

Sacrifice is the essence of love, which is the essence of God.

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.

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.

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.

There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning.