Quotes about Selflessness
How can I best serve the world?" take precedence over "What can I get out of this?" Within that realm, we naturally do get a job, we naturally do create money, and we naturally do produce an outer prosperity that reflects the prosperity in our hearts.
— Marianne Williamson
The essence of masculinity is taking responsibility for yourself, then a wife, then children. These are the kinds of things the Bible says qualify a man to be a church leader.[198] Guys who don't do this act irresponsibly, take rather than give, and dump their responsibilities on others by virtue of their childish ways. This is why Jeremiah wrote, "It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young."[199] Men are like trucks: they drive straighter when carrying a load.
— Mark Driscoll
Corporate worship is to be unselfish.
— Mark Driscoll
It is not easy for a generous person to grow rich, since he is ready to spend, not to take or keep, and honors wealth for the sake of giving, not for itself. Indeed, that is why fortune is denounced, because those who most deserve to grow rich actually do so least.
— Aristotle
You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you? For me, said Sherlock Holmes, there still remains the cocaine-bottle. And he stretched his long white hand up for it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.
— Henri Nouwen
Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.
— Billy Graham
Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.
— Ann Voskamp
humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.
— John Piper
Humility is the flip side of giving God all the glory. Humility means reveling in his grace, not our goodness.
— John Piper
The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they do not seek it in the pleasure of their spouses. The biblical mandate to husbands and wives is to seek your own joy in the joy of your spouse.
— John Piper
He loved us to the uttermost. And let us be so moved by this love that it becomes our own.
— John Piper