Quotes About Selflessness

The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

Renunciation means death of false ego.

I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.

Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.

A wise sufferer will look not inward, but outward. There is no more effective healer than a wounded healer, and in the process the wounded healer's own scars may fade away.

Jesus gave a vivid object lesson his last night with the disciples by washing their feet, like a servant. Parents know the self-giving principle by instinct as they pour their energies into their self-absorbed children. Volunteers in soup kitchens and hospices and mission projects learn this lesson by doing.* What seems like sacrifice becomes instead a kind of nourishment because dispensing grace enriches the giver as well as the receiver.

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?

What seems like sacrifice becomes instead a kind of nourishment because dispensing grace enriches the giver as well as the receiver.

Who helped you most? Most often they (suffering people) answer by describing a quiet, unassuming person. Someone who was there whenever needed, who listened more than talked, who didn't keep glancing down at a watch, who hugged and touched, and cried. In short, someone who was available, and came on the sufferer's terms and not their own.

Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.

Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting.

When I ask, "Tell me the first word that comes to your mind when I say Christian," not one time has someone suggested the word love. Yet without question that is the proper biblical answer.

What would worship look like if we directed it more toward God than toward our own amusement?

Christianity offers the further insight that true fulfillment comes, not through ego satisfaction, but through service to others.

He treats her as if he would spare her any fatigue, as if he has dedicated his life to her happiness.

To do one man's bidding to please another man and get nothing for yourself but heartbreak

Et puis vous vous rendez compte que l'amour n'est ni dépendance, ni possessivité, ni convenance, ni négation de soi ou de l'autre. (p.233)

Periodically Willis's mother would snatch her family's own food off the table and take it round to neighbours, replying to her son's protests: "Stop whining! You're hungry. They're starving!"84

the true ruler is not meant by nature to regard his own interest, but that of his subjects

He spoke grudgingly about his exploits. He did not belong to that species of persons who do things in order to talk about them (like me).

Ministry is when the people who hear you, don't want more of you; they want more of Him because of what you've said. When you point them to God's fire instead of trying to get attention for yourself-that's ministry.

blessing. • When you consider your level of willingness to give of yourself, does it reveal more contentment or discontentment residing

Conceit does not sit well with martyrdom.