Quotes About Selflessness

The second is this: ëLove your neighbor as yourself.í No other commandment is greater than these.”

Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what is yours, do not demand it back.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same.

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.

But give as alms the things that are within you, and you will see that everything is clean for you.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Then Jesus said to the man who had invited Him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbors. Otherwise, they may invite you in return, and you will be repaid.

and you will be blessed. Since they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ëWe are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.í”

Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

He must increase; I must decrease.

I do not accept glory from men,

I do not seek My own glory. There is One who seeks it, and He is the Judge.

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

Selling their possessions and goods, they shared with anyone who was in need.

I have not coveted anyoneís silver or gold or clothing.

You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.

Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.

It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.

We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.