Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

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

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

My beautiful, selfless sister Manuela Testolini-Benet continues to inspire me to be a better woman. Always thinking of others, always doing God's work.

I always sacrifice myself for the love of all my people.

Love is sacrifice.

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.

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.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

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.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

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

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

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

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

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.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

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.