Quotes about Selflessness

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

If your suffering splashes others, those around you, those for whom you represent a reason to live, then you must kill it, choke it.

If God gave it to me, we say it's mine. I can do what I want with it. No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.

If she had been born a hundred years later, she would very likely have been encouraged to be angry, told she had a right to express her anger and her sorrow and her bewilderment and her rage, and generally to disintegrate. These were not the expectations of her friends and family. Nothing could have been further from her expectations of herself. Instead, she threw herself into serving others.

There is a whole world of difference between those who look only for their own happiness in this world and those who know their true happiness lies in the will of God.

I have found, to depression as well. You yourself will be given light in exchange for pouring yourself out for the hungry; you yourself will get guidance, the satisfaction of your longings, and strength, when you "pour yourself out," when you make the satisfaction of somebody else's desire your own concern; you yourself will be a source of refreshment, a builder, a leader into healing and rest at a time when things around you seem to have crumbled.

I reminded Jim of what we both knew it might mean if he went. "Well, if that's the way God wants it to be," was his calm reply. "I'm ready to die for the salvation of the Aucas." While still a student in college Jim had written: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

intercession is the highest expression of love - it is pure giving, teach me such love dear Lord

True biblical love is sacrificing, purifying, nurturing, and enduring.

Jesus teaches us to give richly, serve sacrificially, and love unconditionally.

It's not what you get, but what you give that is God's true measure of a life.