Love means...

Love means to listen to you: immediately and with faith, to listen even in what saddens the heart and shakes the spirit, even in what overturns all the opinions we have formed. Love is the immediate and complete sacrifice of what is dearest to us, your will... The sacrifice of the only son, that which is most precious to our hearts... Love means exchanging all that we have for all the pain out of love for the Lord...

(Charles de Foucauld /1858–1916/, November 1896, Qui peut résister à Dieu)