Quotes About Selflessness

He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.

Those who seek their own honor are no longer seeking God and their neighbor.

Self-centered love loves the other for the sake of itself; spiritual love loves the other for the sake of Christ.

Work is only an instrument in the hand of God for the purification of Christians from all self-centeredness and self-seeking. The work of the world can be done only where a person forgets himself, where he loses himself in a cause...

g. What does it mean to love God?[444] Loving God means giving him everything that belongs to me; it means wishing nothing for myself; it means asking his will before everything you do;[445] it means gladly thinking about him, praying to him, gladly hearing and reading his word.

The wish to be independent in everything is false pride. Even what we owe to others belongs to ourselves and is a part of our own lives, and any attempt to calculate what we have 'earned' for ourselves and what we owe to other people is certainly not Christian, and is, moreover, a futile undertaking.

The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.

Everything depends on your intention. All the time, therefore, check your attitude and motivation. As Patrul Rinpoche said, everyone wants happiness, but the true way to reach perfect happiness is to bring happiness to others.

The true test of faith is how we treat those who can do nothing for us in return.

Don't settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice.

In humility, we find our true calling and our greatest honor.

To follow Christ requires a downward career track that does not depend on dollars or status. Instead, what matters is Christ.

Let us join Him in accomplishing His will today rather than our own.

When your goal is not fame or notoriety, you can simply show up, offer compassion to people, and let God do His work.

When Jesus was interrupted, He started where He was and helped those in need who were nearest to Him. There is always another mission "out there"—the next cause, the next city, or the next country that seems to be the most important mission we could pursue. Jesus illustrates that our greatest mission is often the person in front of us.

Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.

Nora had the face of all people who love the people – a face that would be evil when she found out that to love without criticism is to be betrayed. Nora robbed herself for everyone; incapable of giving herself warning, she was continually turning about to find herself diminished. Wandering people the world over found her profitable in that she could be sold for a price forever, for she carried her betrayal money in her own pocket.

Forgetting oneself is opening oneself

Get down off 'at cross; Somebody needs the wood!

For this is a great sin, to not share with those who have thirst.

People will become more aware. They will realize they are bigger than they believe they are. They are without limits. Some of these consciousnesses will wake up and some of them will not wake up because they are focused on themselves.

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.

Goodness seeks nothing except to give itself and to communicate the riches which it enjoys.

We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be 'lost in the objectivity of world-love', as I have elsewhere put it; or, perhaps better, we should let ourselves be only an empty space filled with brightness. Life lived like that is 'eternal' life.