Dare to lose your life and you will find it.

We become ourselves by dying to ourselves. We gain only what we give up, and if we give up everything we can everything. We cannot find ourselves within ourselves, but only in others, yet at the same time, before we can go out to others we must find ourselves.

Sacrifice always means the renunciation of a valuable part of oneself, and through it the sacrificer escapes being devoured.

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

Monsieur Mayor," said the bishop, "that is just it. I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.

Happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.

Better to lose our lives than the purpose of our living.

I was valuing my survival more than sharing my faith.