Quotes about Selflessness
We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.
- Vance Havner
Missionary life is simply a chance to die.
- Amy Carmichael
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
- Vernon Howard
If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
- Desmond Tutu
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
- Tertullian
True Christianity is a life of sacrifice. It requires that in everything we live for the Lord and others, not ourselves.
- Rick Joyner
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.
- Mark Twain
What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.
- Rick Warren
The more you give, the more you can give.
- Roy Bennett
Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.
- Shauna Niequist