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Quotes about Sacrifice

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything
- Anonymous
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, - 'Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa
These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who don't want their children, give them to me.
- Mother Teresa
Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions
- Jerry Falwell
Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee
- John of the Cross
So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
- John Milton