sacrifice in love Quotes

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

Love is costly. T forgive in love costs us our sense of justice. To serve in love costs us time. To share in love costs us money. Every act of love costs us in some way, just as it cost God to love us. But we are to live a life of love just as Christ loves us and gave Himself for us at great cost to Himself.

I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.

Why must one love rarely to love well?

And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge, which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves we always end up losing. That to love is to lose, the moment we agree to the bargain. And that, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that's what you're feeling?

Any love involves loss, and that's the risk you take. And the greater the love, the greater the loss. I certainly feel that now with the woman I'm with, and the children that I have. But whatever the course may be, this time together is extraordinary.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her