Quotes About Selflessness

Standing beside you, I took an oath to make your life simpler by complicating mine and what I always thought would happen did: I was lifted up in joy.

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

The secret to practicing resurrection is in giving away who we are and what we have—completely and wholly—to something greater than ourselves. It's in escaping from the circumstances and choices that entomb us and entering into new life here and now.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

A natural man lives for himself; a lover lives for others.

There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.

God can't fill you when you are already full of yourself.

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God.

When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.

At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

If we are not full of Him we have nothing to offer to anyone else.

If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.