Inner Sacrifice Quotes

Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments.

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.

What has a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.

Until we give God our heart, we give Him nothing at all.

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

The first step to be taken by one who wishes to follow Christ is, according to Our Lord’s own words, that of renouncing himself - that is, his own senses, his own passions, his own will, his own judgement, and all the movements of nature, making to God a sacrifice of all these things, and of all their acts, which are surely sacrifices very acceptable to the Lord. And we must never grow weary of this; for if anyone having, so to speak, one foot already in Heaven, should abandon this exercise, when the time should come for him to put the other there, he would run much risk of being lost.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.

I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

Whoever reads the gospel with a single eye, and sincere intentions, will find, that our blessed Lord took all opportunities of reminding his disciples that His Kingdom was not of this world; that His doctrine was a doctrine of the Cross; and that their professing themselves to be His followers, would call them to a constant state of voluntary suffering and self-denial.

There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. ... "If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves ... and take up their cross.

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.

How much did you get for your soul?