Quotes About Selflessness

If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Extravagant love is never wasted.

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.

Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.

Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego

There are many hearing me who now know well that they are not Christians because they do not love to give. To give largely and liberally, not grudging at all, requires a new heart.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

Love does not take away from one in order to give to another.

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.

Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

The measure of true giving is to share with someone who has no platform from which to speak and may never benefit us in any way. After all, isn't that what true love is all about?

True love is an act of total surrender.

Rescue is costly, but LOVE pays the price.

There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.

When all that's left of me is love, Give me away.

How much love did you put into what you did?

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love