Quotes about Selflessness

A. W. Tozer said, "The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.

serving is the highest use of life

Anytime you use your God-given abilities to help others, you are fulfilling your purpose of life. What matters is not the Duration of your life, but the Donation of it.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it's thinking of yourself less.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.