Quotes About Selflessness

It was better to be gentle and polite. It was the worst sort of selfishness to force yourself upon the world.

Love is the willingness to do anything for someone [...] Even at detriment to yourself.

Love is the willingness to do anything for someone," I said. "Even at detriment to yourself.

It's not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people.

Real love...is when you get as much pleasure from giving pleasure as you do from receiving it.

How much money and time—and attention and emotional energy—should we spend on ourselves, on those close to us, and on strangers?

It isn't good if it doesn't hurt, so when we do good, we are willing—in fact, eager—to experience pain.

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

Public Choice Theory. This recognized that decisions on public policies are not usually taken by detached saints, but by balancing pressures from different interest groups, including the bureaucrats themselves. The selflessness of the planner could only be relied upon while the people involved in the decision were imbued with a passion for the national interest, as instilled into the wartime generation.

To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become what we were meant to be.

Human relationships are most satisfying when we enter them not just to please ourselves or even the other person, but to please God.

You and I were created for more than filling up our schedules with the self-satisfying pursuits of personal pleasure.

God is at work, taking people who instinctively speak for themselves and transforming them into people who effectively speak for him.

the more you focus on your own neediness, the more your desires will be christened as needs.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

You were put here for the purpose of the glory of another. This is not a lifestyle option; it is in the very nature of your humanity. To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become what we were meant to be.

Success is not about how well I've been able to build my own little kingdom but about the degree to which I've done all I've done in the service of a greater

It is only when I live in a celebratory and restful worship of God that I am able not to take myself too seriously and I am free to serve and celebrate another.

This desire for transcendence is in all of us because God placed it there. He constructed us to live for more than ourselves.

We would prefer to lob grenades of truth into people's lives rather than lay down our lives for them. But this is exactly what Christ did for us. Can we expect to be called to do anything less?

El Redentor vivió, murió y resucitó para que nosotros ya no vivamos para nosotros mismos sino para Él y para Su gloria (2 Co. 5:14-15) (2)

God's grace dethrones you from your little kingdom and welcomes you to a much better kingdom than you could ever want for yourself.

It is only when we really do believe that life is bigger than us, that there is something more important than our wants, needs, and feelings, and that we have been given life and breath for the purposes, plans, and praise of another, that we will be willing to forgive.

When I opt for a me-centered "more," what I actually get is always much, much less.