C. S. Lewis Quotes

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself.

As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kill me.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.