Quotes About Sacrifice

The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.

To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless. Love is willing to completely give up your life for someone, to make sacrifices and put them first.

One of our greatest challenges as Christians is to be driven by the love of Christ rather than constantly seeking after God's comfort.

You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.

Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

When you're dating, abstinence is a greater expression of love than making love, because you're doing what's best for your beloved, not just what feels good in the moment.

Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It's a given and that's the secret.

I'd rather bleed with cuts of love than live without any scars.

That's how I see myself as an actress. I may not be the best in the world, but I love my craft more than just about anything, and I will give everything I have to it, whatever the cost.

True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.

The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love.

Nails didn't hold God to a cross. Love did.

Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.

You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.

Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.

If the heart bleeds love, bare it, If the martyr's crown fits, wear it.

Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.