Quotes About Sacrifice

To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything else, we must love it only for His sake.

Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

I went up to a man and said 'Jesus loves you' but I realised that it didn't mean anything unless I did it.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.

Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

He left His Father's throne above, (So free, so infinite His grace!) Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race.

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

To place your horse's need for you to let him leave his failing body above your need to keep him with you - that - is the greatest and purest love.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way.

Love and say it with your life.

To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.

But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.

Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?

And love … love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too.