Quotes about Selflessness

But I wanted to do it for you," Mr. Murry said. "That's what every parent wants.

The Mother asks the sacrifice of love.

With all our human struggling for power we cannot heal ourselves, so God, with wondrous love, gives away power, gives away himself so that we may be healed.

When you find a way to serve, the angel in you awakens.

The relentless desire to give is evidence of love.

Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God's interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.

That best portion of a good man's life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.

Oh, become nothing in deep reality, and, as a worker, study only one thing—to become poorer and lower and more helpless, that Christ may work all in you.

Until a humility that rests in nothing less than the end and death of self, and which gives up all the honor of men as Jesus did to seek the honor that comes from God alone (which absolutely makes and counts itself nothing) that God may be all, that the Lord alone may be exalted—until such a humility is what we seek in Christ above our chief joy, and welcome at any price, there is very little hope of a faith that will conquer the world.