Thought(s) for the day: Sacrifice and Humility vs. Self-love

"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it:

and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it."

Matthew 16:25

"Accordingly, two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self. The former, in a word, glorifies in itself, the latter in the Lord. For the one seeks glory from men; but the greatest glory of the other is God... the one delights in its own strength... the other says to its God,

'I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength.'

Psalm 18:1 and St. Augustine's City of God

"World history... is a struggle between two kinds of love - love of self that ends in hatred of God, and love of God that ends in renunciation of self. The second love is the redemption of the world and of the self."

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Co-workers of the Truth