Quotes About Selflessness

God's call will never involve temptation or evil or selfishness.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

Always, this modesty.' Magnus's tone had the slightest edge of disapproval, perhaps hinting at a lecture soon to come. 'You live your life for others, Lorgar. There is a line when selflessness becomes unhealthy. If all you do is to raise others from ignorance, when is there time for you to learn more yourself? If all you seek is a greater purpose in existence, where is the joy in your own life? Look to the future, but cherish the present.

And so must learn to love with our mouths and voices, as well as with our eyes, flesh, heart, brains, and with everything we have, right down to our toenails. There is not anything about us that cannot love, and that is not called to love, and that is not destined to be turned, conformed, and reduced to pure love. It ...is the priceless deposit left by the burning away of selfishness.

Something critical is missing in places that care for broken and needy people if the only people there are also broken and needy.

Still not sure what your risk might be? Then I dare you to ask yourself a reality-rattling question: "What would I do during my day or in my life for God if I wasn't concerned with what I wear, what I eat, where I sleep, what I own, what people think of me, or what discomfort~ I face? Think about your answer. You're probably at least in the neighborhood of where your personal journey starts.

I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.

For this was love, wasn't it? To have someone clean up after you, to think about you when you were sick, to not walk away when there was nothing to be gained for the labor required.

The world is awash in hunger. How could you cause your own?

Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.

I don't actually understand the meaning of generosity. It means giving to people and expecting nothing in return. It doesn't mean giving to someone with the expectation, or even hope, that they will regale you with praise for being such a generous person. I realized that I'm fine with giving, but I'm bad at generosity.

I'm a mom first.

Jesus comes first. Then others. Then yourself. All of our decisions come down to that. Christ taught us to live in community. He wants us to be His hands and feet.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as is one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists.

A real mother throws her heart over the fence and then climbs after it.

For no man has adherents on the day of woe. I gave to the beggar, I raised the orphan, I gave success to the poor as to the wealthy..

She loved him for his own sake, and therefore she would rather have suffered his absence if he flourished than to have enjoyed his presence if he languished; her sorrow over his avoidable languishing would overshadow her delight in his presence. For a lover, it is more blessed to give than to receive, even when giving pierces the lover's heart.

the true God gives so we can become joyful givers and not just self-absorbed receivers.

God doesn't give in order to acquire. God loves without self-seeking; that's at the heart of who God is. God gives for the benefit of others.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

He wondered what drove Dave Tarantino into that brick oven to crawl through jagged rubble, flip onto his back, and leg-press a load of burning debris, knowing that it might crash down on top of him. Dave Thomas decided that he'd never seen a more courageous act. But it worried him—he feared that Dave Tarantino

Just hush up and hang to me, Princess. I don't care what I have to do. His majesty is gone now. My master is you. Use me... so that you can live. That... that is what I am here for." —Son Hak

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you w1sh to posess them. ThiS 1S the only way that you will be truly rich.