Quotes About Sacrifice

We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self.

Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love

It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.

Meditate like Christ...He lost himself in love.

You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

Pure love ... knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love - love, and always love.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

Amazing Love! how can it be, That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Real love will take you far beyond yourself;and therefore real love will devastate you.

When you're in love you'll do anything, I'd go to the end of the world.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

Love is giving everything and taking nothing

Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, Offer themselves a burning sacrifice.