Connie Willis Quotes

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

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

Tell the people... please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I'm suffering a lot, but I love them.

There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.

There is no love without sacrifices.

Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return, the unquestioning willingness to lose everything, even if that loss is as something as precious as life itself.

Love... love... love, never counting the cost.

If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him?

A human’s love. I couldn’t wish anything better for him. Animals protect what they know. They protect what they are bound to, but humans…humans have a greater capacity for sacrifice for those who live in their hearts. (Aristotle)

The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

I would die for you. But I won't live for you.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Love is sacrifice.

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

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

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

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.

For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

My owner is life and that's what I fight for.

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.