Quotes About Selflessness

I may yet go through anguish in hell for my sin. But if I had to live that time again I would do the same, to end Margery's ordeal. I preferred to suffer myself than to know that her agony continued. Her well-being was more important to me than my own. I have learned, during the course of a long life, that that is the meaning of love.

Her well-being was more important to me than my own. I have learned, during the course of a long life, that that is the meaning of love.

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The fact that you're ready to give up your life's work to live with me is ... it almost breaks my heart that you should love me so much. But I don't want to be the woman who took you away from the work you loved.

We must help them, even if they have the plague. Our lives are not our own, to be protected like gold hidden under the earth. We have given ourselves to God, to use as he wishes, and he will end our lives when it suits his holy purpose.

But a woman was liable to put her child before everything else, in the end [...]

You got to understand that as soon as a man goes to help someone, he leaves himself wide open.

Meg kell neked is érteni, hogy amint valaki a másiknak a segítségére siet, maga fedezetlen marad.

You got to understand that as soon as a man goes to help somebody, he leaves himself wide open.

I love them but I cannot give myself for them.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.

True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.

Think Give. Not Get. Nothing has the power to positively change your world more.

Serving others is one of the bases for you to have or to enjoy a fullness of purpose in life.

When you get shy, you're simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself.

We are born to serve, to find the power of love, and to get what we deserve.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.