Quotes about Selflessness
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.
— Edith Stein
If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.
— Adrian Rogers
He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much.
— Amy Carmichael
Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.
— Mother Teresa
Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
— John of the Cross
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
— Leo Buscaglia
Don't save up love like you're trying to retire on it; give it away like you're made of it.
— Bob Goff
The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.
— JI Packer
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
— Michael Novak