Quotes About Selflessness

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.

I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.

Intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.

When evangelizers rise from prayer, their hearts are more open; freed of self-absorption, they are desirous of doing good and sharing their lives with others.

Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.

I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

Before we can pray "Lord Thy Kingdom come " we must be willing to pray "My Kingdom go."

Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.