Quotes about Sacrifice

Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others, even for people who offend or do not love in return. If you are a parent, look at the love you have for the children you sacrificed for. Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Proactive people subordinate feelings to values. Love, the feeling, can be recaptured.

Only love and death will change all things.

The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.

Nails didn't hold God to a cross. Love did.

Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.

Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.

When we love deeply, love makes us do things we wouldn't otherwise do.