Quotes about Selflessness

I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for what will benefit me, dreaming of all I can be. Life is all about my relationship with God. There is no higher calling, no loftier dream, and no greater goal than to live, breathe, and be poured out for Jesus Christ." --Jamie in Brother Andrew's "The Calling

You can get in anywhere if you go to serve.

Our sanctification does not depend upon changing what we do, but in doing for God's sake what we normally do for our own sake.

He said that our sanctification does not depend as much on changing our activities as it does on doing them for God rather than for ourselves.

Yet grant, if it please You, that after having received them, I may return them just as You gave them to me; for You well know that it is not Your gifts that I seek and desire, but Yourself, and I can be content with nothing less.

Real living is living for others.

Showing off is the fools's idea of glory.

Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic element which should never change in the lives of righteous young women is giving service to others.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.