Quotes about Selflessness

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

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.

If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who come into your life. Then nothing and no one shall have power to cheat you of anything, for if you give to a thief, he cannot steal from you, and he himself is then no longer a thief. And the more you give, the more you will have to give.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself one way or the other at all. . . . The humility which consists in being a great deal occupied about yourself, and saying you are of little worth, is not Christian humility. It is one form of self-occupation and a very poor and futile one at that.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the loreOf nicely calculated less or more.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.