"Our self-abnegation is thus not for our own sake, but for the sake of others. And thus it is not to mere self-denial that Christ calls us, but specifically to self-sacrifice: not to unselfing ourselves, but to unselfishing ourselves. . . . He [Christ] did not cultivate self, even His divine self: He took no account of self. . . . He was led by His love for others into the world, to forget Himself in the needs of others, to sacrifice self once for all upon the altar of sympathy. Self-sacrifice brought Christ into the world. And self-sacrifice will lead us, His followers, not away from but into the midst of men. Wherever men suffer, there will we be to comfort. . . . Self-sacrifice means not indifference to our times and our fellows: it means absorption in them. . . . It means not that we should live one life, but a thousand lives – binging ourselves to a thousand souls by the filaments of so loving a sympathy that their lives become ours"

B. B. Warfield, The Person and Work of Christ, (Phillipsburg, N.J.: P & R Publishing Co., 1950), p. 574.