Quotes about Selflessness

Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me.

O my God, teach me to be generous, teach me to serve you as I should, to give without counting the cost, to fight without fear of being wounded, to work without seeking rest, to labour without expecting any reward, but the knowledge that I am doing your most holy will.

When one loves, one does not calculate.

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

I've come to realize that love has nothing to do with "never having to say you're sorry." Love is an action that does what's best for the other person.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.

Only as they cease to seek anything by themselves and only as they take the position of the teachable shall they be taught by the Spirit truth which they are able to digest.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.

When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.

Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.