Quotes about Selflessness

and have not Charity (that is, have not the Spirit of Christ) it profiteth me nothing.

It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.

I longed to spend and be spent for God.

I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity.

There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.

God can't fill you when you are already full of yourself.

At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

If we are not full of Him we have nothing to offer to anyone else.

God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold.