Quotes About Sacrifice

Mount Calvary is the academy of love.

The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us.

Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

Love is the very essence of the gospel.

No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

Love is selfless. The key is giving up yourself.

Free love is too expensive.

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

Maybe love isn't supposed to be comfortable. Maybe love is just supposed to be worth it.

Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield.

As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

My Lord, what love is this that pays so dearly. That I, the guilty one, may go free!

True love is an act of total surrender.

Rescue is costly, but LOVE pays the price.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.

When all that's left of me is love, Give me away.

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

Love is never convenient-and rarely painless

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.

Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.