Quotes About Selflessness

Don't save up love like you're trying to retire on it; give it away like you're made of it.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.

That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.

A test of your love for God is to examine your love for others.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

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

Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.

Love must express itself as service

Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.

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.

Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

He left His Father's throne above, (So free, so infinite His grace!) Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race.

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.

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.