“Love grows as sacrifice grows.”

One cannot embrace Christ without embracing His cross and the suffering it entails.

I sit holding the limp body of my Jesus in my arms. As I pull Him close, embrace Him, I feel a stabbing pain in my heart; but with this pain I also feel an abundance of love fill my heart from being so close to my Love, my Master. So I hold Him closer still and the pain increases but so does the love. I look down and realize that the thorns from His crown have pierced my heart; so painful and yet only a fraction of the pain He endured for my sake.
This realization drives me to hold Him closer still, that I may share in His suffering and also in His love.

“Love grows as sacrifice grows.”
- Fulton Sheen