Quotes about Selflessness
If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.
— Timothy Keller
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.
— Graham Kendrick
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.
— Oswald Chambers
May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
— Mother Teresa
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.
— Charles Spurgeon
When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
— Samuel Rutherford
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.
— Andrew Murray
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.
— DL Moody
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.
— Thomas a Kempis
We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
— AB Simpson
I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
— Samuel Rutherford