Quotes About Selflessness

The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.

Who are you going to live for - yourself or God?

The question is not How much may I indulge in and still be saved. God forbid! I must rather ask, What about Christ's will and the example I set for my fellow Christians?

Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.

Our giving is but a reflex of God's giving.

Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God.

Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.

God let it be known that it is better to give than to receive, but a lot of people failed to get the message.

There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving.

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.

Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.

Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.

I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.

Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of 'doing' happens every day.

The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.

The one whose egoism is gone, he becomes God. One is a mortal (jivatma) as long as there is egoism and if his egoism goes away, he becomes the eternal Absolute Supreme Soul (Paramatma).

If your ministry can't work without you, then it is no longer Christ-centered. Minister toward Jesus, not yourself.

The Celestial (Heavenly Gods) become pleased with the one who isn't hungry for fame and recognition. The whole world can be pleased with us, but because of our hunger they are not pleased with us.

Where there is 'egoism', there is no God. Where there is God, there is no 'egoism'.

Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.

He who Serves his fellows is, of all his fellows, greatest

We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.