Quotes about Selflessness
Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.
- Mother Teresa
Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.
- Robert Barron
This life is not about me. It's about joining hands with Jesus to fulfill whatever tasks He sets before me and to share His love with all He brings my way.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.
- Mother Teresa
To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
- Oscar Wilde
The last degree of love is when He gave Himself to us to be our Food; because He gave Himself to be united with us in every way.
- Bernardino of Siena
One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives.
- Oscar Romero
There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.
- George H. W. Bush
Love is giving someone what they need most, when they deserve it least, at great personal cost to yourself.
- Chip Ingram
When one loves, one does not calculate.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!
- John Hagee
The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.
- Mother Teresa