Girolamo Savonarola: Sacrificial Generosity is Motivated by Love

“My Lord was pleased to die for my sins; why should I not be glad to give up my poor life out of love to Him.”

Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) as recounted by Herbert Lockyer, Last Words of Saints and Sinners (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1969), p. 151.