Quotes About Selflessness

God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.

If we don't think about God, everything ends up being about 'me' and my own comfort.

You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.

CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.

So often we don't give from our abundance. We give from what we have no use for. I have learned that God not only looks at what we give but also at what we keep.

I'm here to serve God and be of service. I'm nothing; everything out here is a lot bigger than me.

When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we obliterate our traces in order to become more God-like.

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.

He who serves God with what costs him nothing, will do very little service, you may depend on it.

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

Do something nice for somebody. Do something nice for God. Do something nice for the earth - and don't expect anything in return or you will suffer.

Unless you're doing some kind of God conscious thing and you know that He's the one who's really in charge, you're just building up a lot of karma and not really helping yourself or anybody else.

Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.

You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more.

Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.

A "godly" person is one who ceases to be self-centered in order to become God-centered.

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.

If you have ever said, "I didn't get anything out of worship today," you worshiped for the wrong reason. Worship isn't for you. It's for God.

God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.