Quotes About Selflessness

LOVE LANGUAGE # 4 Acts of Service

Was I wrong when I humbled myself and honored you by preaching God's Good News to you without expecting anything in return? —2 Corinthians 11:7

Loving other people means meeting their needs, whatever those needs may be. — Rebecca Krusee

If I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn't love others, I would be nothing. —1 Corinthians 13:2

We who are strong must be considerate of those who are sensitive about things like this. We must not just please ourselves. —Romans 15:1

Overcoming our own comfort is sometimes exactly what will comfort someone else. — Sandy Cathcart —

This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. —John 15:12

Making room for God and others means first putting off the old self. — James Stuart Bell

Love is the attitude that says, "I am married to you, and I choose to look out for your interests." Then the one who chooses to love will find appropriate ways to express that decision.

I can't conceive of doing anything to hurt her. My only desire is to make her happy. I would do anything to make her happy." Such obsession gives us the false sense that our egocentric attitudes have been eradicated

Some people are always greedy for more, but the godly love to give! —Proverbs 21:26

Sometimes loving means giving. — Carol Russell —

I don't say this because I want a gift from you. Rather, I want you to receive a reward for your kindness. —Philippians 4:17

Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.

Mature masculinity expresses itself not in the demand to be served, but in the strength to serve and to sacrifice for the good of woman.

How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.

The phrase "I live for my kids," for example, is tantamount to admitting that one will be dead shortly and that one's life, for all practical purposes, is already over. "I'm gradually dying for my kids" would be more accurate.

Up with you!... No!... No, I will go up myself, dear! Oh, very well, I will go up. Let me go! Oh, my darling, my darling!... How sweet of you!... How nice of you to save me the exertion at my age!

If you don't know I can't tell you. Yes, I can; because I want to turn things around. Like, everybody all the time only does it for himself or something he sees being part of him only bigger, an empire or a church, like that. I'm doing it for ants, to set us loose." The bearded man said, "You stoned?" "Sure I'm stoned. Ken, I'm stoned blind." "You don't look stoned, man." "Trust me.

No act of love is ever wasted.

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.