Quotes About Sacrifice

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

Love is born in fire, is planted like a seed Love cannot give you everything, but it gives you what you need

Intense love does not measure; it just gives

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Marriage is the best of all evils.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

They who marry for wealth sell their own liberty

Marriage is the tomb of love

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist.

An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.