Quotes about Selflessness

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go.

We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God - and I believe there is - that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.

Love isn't love just because someone receives it or reciprocates," Coral said. "Loving someone who doesn't love you in return is perhaps the greatest kind of love. Sacrificial. Without demand or condition.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

Make sure you're always giving, way more than you're taking

What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

No man can help another without helping himself.