Quotes about Selflessness
The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
- Oswald Chambers
We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.
- Oswald Chambers
If you'll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.
- Joel Osteen
The favor of God does not bless self-promotion.
- Bill Johnson
Theres not one good thought in me, apart from God. Thats the good news.
- Sheila Walsh
Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!
- Horatius Bonar
Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.
- St. John Chrysostom
God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.
- Tullian Tchividjian
God is not a taker. God is a giver.
- Louie Giglio
When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.
- Mahatma Gandhi
God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss