Quotes about Sacrifice
The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
— Francis Chan
Jesus Christ, in His infinite love, has become what we are, in order that He may make us entirely what He is.
— Irenaeus of Lyons
Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying. Our culture doesn't love love; It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.
— Matt Chandler
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.
— Edith Stein
Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.
— Bob Goff
He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much.
— Amy Carmichael
Love is not what you say; love is what you do.
— John Hagee
Because of his boundless love, Jesus became what we are that he might make us to be what he is.
— Irenaeus of Lyons
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
— Billy Graham
You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.
— Mother Teresa
The thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.
— Billy Graham