Quotes about Sacrifice

How was she to reconcile men's desire with the desire to be beautiful in their eyes? At first she had tried for a compromise (desperate journeys abroad, where nobody knew her and no indiscretion could betray her); then, later on, she had gone radical and sacrificed her erotic life to her beauty.

Because love means renouncing strength.

Everything he did, he did for Sabina, the way Sabina would have liked to see it done.

Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows).

Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.

The fact is, you can say you love God and sing that you trust God and put him first, but your checkbook is where you can show just how much God's grace means to you.

Sacrifice is the essence of love, which is the essence of God.

Wheresoever we seek our own, there we fall from love.

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.

Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.