When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

To follow Christ requires a downward career track that does not depend on dollars or status. Instead, what matters is Christ.

Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Missional leaders not only feel the burden of God's mission but they also act on the burden and act upon it sacrificially.

Remember always where the dreaming ends and the being begins. Draw a line for everything you care about and then step over it.

He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves.

You have to make sacrifices for the things you believe in. If you don’t, what’s the point in believing in anything?

If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they’d love you more.

This is the one who will find us. He's the one who will lead them all back to me someday. He's the explorer. El curioso.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Jesus came to give us life. We don't have to hang on a cross like he did. For him, it was a sacrifice. For us, it is a gift.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

True love is sacrifice. It is in giving, not in getting; in losing, not in gaining; in realizing, not in possessing, that we love!

You think me noble?” She rolled to her side facing him. “Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?

I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.