Quotes About Selflessness

Refusing to acknowledge and embrace your sinful past is choosing your love for yourself over your love of God.

23Pride ends in humiliation,         while humility brings honor.

It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

I would die for you. But I won't live for you.

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.

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

I do not give lectures or a little charity. When I give I give myself.

It's a wonderful phrase. Gandhi's meaning was simple: Only the human being who acts in a way that is empty of self can be the instrument of Soul Force. And it is only Soul Force that can establish a harmonious world. Human beings alone are helpless to resolve conflicts without it.

He saw that true living was living for the sake of others. He was freed from the bondage of his awkward, inept, fearful self.

Free from self-will, aggressiveness, arrogance, anger, and the lust to possess people or things, he is at peace with himself and others and enters into the unitive state. United with Brahman, ever joyful, beyond the reach of desire and sorrow, he has

[The key to] life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Cada vez que el hombre decide amar verdaderamente a Dios y a su prójimo, significa salir de su zona de comodidad a un lugar donde tiene que ensuciarse las manos

IF I SPEAK WITH THE TONGUES OF MEN AND OF ANGELS, BUT DO NOT HAVE LOVE, I HAVE BECOME A NOISY GONG OR A CLANGING CYMBAL. IF I HAVE THE GIFT OF PROPHECY, AND KNOW ALL MYSTERIES AND ALL KNOWLEDGE; AND IF I HAVE ALL FAITH, SO AS TO REMOVE MOUNTAINS, BUT DO NOT HAVE LOVE, I AM NOTHING. AND IF I GIVE ALL MY POSSESSIONS TO FEED THE POOR, AND IF I SURRENDER MY BODY TO BE BURNED, BUT DO NOT HAVE LOVE, IT PROFITS ME NOTHING. 1 CORINTHIANS 13:1–3 (NASB)

It always does what is best for others and can empower us to face the greatest of problems." (love)

Lordship is when "What does the Lord want?" trumps, "What do I want?

This is the thing...you give everything to raising a guide-dog puppy, but the everything comes from you spirit -- it's your happiness, your wakefulness, your love of life itself. Puppies take this into their hearts like vitamins.

Love is an activity, not a feeling…True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish.

Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

D]on't cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)

A leader doesn't need any credit…. He's getting more credit than he deserves anyway. —ROBERT TOWNSEND, FORMER CEO, AVIS

If a man lives for the glory of God, he stops looking for affirmation from other human beings after every good deed, a pat on the head every time he does his duty. Instead, he throws himself into his role unselfishly. He contents himself with knowing he is fulfilling his purpose in this world and pleasing the God who made him.

For art to appear, we have to disappear

were we truly men of dedication—with an honor mortgaged to no single individual or group, and compromised by no private obligation or aim, but devoted solely to serving the public good and the national interest?