Quotes About Altruism

I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it.

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Whoever has a heart full of love always has something to give.

Love must express itself as service

True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.

Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

Lord, teach us to step outside ourselves. Teach us to go out into the streets and manifest your love.

Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

Love looks around to see who is in need

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.

Before you can improve your life and find a measure of happiness, you must learn to do one thing every day out of pure love.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.

The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

When you love till it hurts, there will be no hurt left, just love.

To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.

True love knows no bargains. It is one-way traffic: giving, giving, giving.