Quotes About Sacrifice

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.

Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose.

How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Love demands effort and a personal commitment to the will of God.

My service to humanity Is my real opportunity To prove my genuine love For God and God alone.

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.

Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.

I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

Lead me to the cross Where Your love poured out Bring me to my knees Lord I lay me down Rid me of myself I belong to You Lead me, lead me to the cross.

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with LOVE, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.

For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.