Quotes About Selflessness

Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.

They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

If you feel so lonely you could cry, take the focus off yourself. Think of how much God loves you, and find another person whom you can serve today.

Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you

Because there is no ego, God can flow through you; great creativity becomes possible.

Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.

Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

Pray daily to be used by God, sacrifice personal needs and so greed has to go out of the window. Because you have to believe God can take care of you so you don't have to worry about that.

If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.

To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.

I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.

God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.

The question is not, how much of what is mine do I give to others. The question is, how much of what is God's do I reserve for myself. The answer we give is a faith issue, a stewardship issue.

The more awake you are, the less there is of you here. At the very deepest level of Presence, you have disappeared and only God is.

I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.

We pray as if God's chief objective is our personal comfort. It's not. God's chief objective is His glory.

God doesn't desire our worship because He is egocentric. He desires it because we are.

To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self" that has existed until now, letting only God live in one's heart.

Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me.