136 Quotes About Self-sacrifice

I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion--I have shuddered at it,I shudder no more.I could be martyred for my religion.Love is my religionand I could die for that.I could die for you.My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization?

Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been

In reality, a gift is nothing more than the wrappings within which I have placed myself.

Whatever the item is that I have chosen to give you, it is nothing more than the receptacle within which I have placed the whole of myself. If it is empty, it is not a gift.

Prayer is one action where I lay aside my abilities to immerse myself wholly in God’s capabilities. And the liberation found in such an action is less about being engaged with God and more about being freed from myself.