Quotes About Sacrifice

Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love.

Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.

The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.

The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no great sanctity.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kill me.

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root.

What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's.

When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

Love is unworldly and nothing comes of it but love.

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.

Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.