Quotes about Selflessness
If you find more joy in serving God than yourself, you know that grace has entered your door, because only grace has the power to rescue you from you.
— Paul David Tripp
If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it." — LUKE 9:23-24
— Perry Stone
A selfish person will never learn the joy of giving and being a blessing to others.
— Perry Stone
She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.
— Genesis 24:46
Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
— Exodus 32:32
Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
— Ruth 2:11
And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”
— Ruth 3:17
Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you desire, I will do for you.”
— 1 Samuel 20:4
but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.
— 2 Samuel 12:3
You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,
— Job 22:7
if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
— Job 31:17
One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.
— Proverbs 11:24