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“When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled employment becomes just a settled habit of prayer.”

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Author:Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

“Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.”

“I resolved to dedicate all my life to God, all my thoughts, and words, and actions; being thoroughly convinced, there was no medium; but that every part of my life (not some only) must either be a sacrifice to God, or myself, that is, in effect, to the devil. Can any serious person doubt of this, or find a medium between serving God and serving the devil?”

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Book:The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Christian perfection

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Christian perfection

“Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.”

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Book:The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri

Source: The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri

“The goal of human freedom is not in freedom itself, nor it is in man, but in God. By giving man freedom, God has yielded to man a piece of His Divine authority, but with the intention that man himself would voluntarily bring it as a sacrifice to God, a most perfect offering.”

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Author:Theophan the Recluse

“Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins.”

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Author:John Dominic Crossan

“Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.”

Source: The Complete Works of John Bunyan

“If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”

“You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.”

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Author:John Bunyan

“When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.”

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Book:The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...

Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...