Quotes About Selflessness

When you serve others, you are serving God. When you do it for them, you're doing it for Him. Jesus said, "If you give a cup of cold water to someone in need, you will surely be rewarded." Every time you serve, God sees it. Every time you help someone else. Every time you sacrifice--you go out of your way to pick up a friend, you get up early to sing in the choir, you stay late to help a coworker--God is keeping the record.

Father, I know that You are a giver, and I want to be like You. Please help me to hold loosely those things You have placed in my hands, and help me to always be ready to give to others in the same way You have given to me.

Get up in the morning with the attitude, "Who can I be a blessing to today? Who can I encourage? Where is there a need that I can meet? If I meet other people's needs, God can meet mine.

The crucifixion of the self is accomplished when there is nothing left for which you wish to pray. To

When you love someone completely, you'll do anything to protect them, even if you sacrifice your soul. Because if you don't, you destroy your soul anyway.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

For millennia, humans have talked about something called the Golden Rule. It's the idea that you should do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Tim, I think, has discovered something we should call the I-Want-Golden-Things Rule.17 The more you think life is about having stuff and superiority and showing it off, the more unhappy, and the more depressed and anxious, you will be.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.

I treat my little heart like a sick child: whatever it wishes for is granted.

One must lose one's life to find it.

The only way you can truly get more out of life for yourself is to give part of yourself away.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.

When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

Each player on this team whether he shines in the spotlight or eats dirt on the line, must be an All-American.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.