Quotes about Selflessness
You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
- Catherine of Siena
God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.
- Henri Nouwen
CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.
- John Piper
Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom.
- Francis de Sales
It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
- Henry David Thoreau
A "godly" person is one who ceases to be self-centered in order to become God-centered.
- Charles Swindoll
Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.
- Mary Baker Eddy
If you have ever said, "I didn't get anything out of worship today," you worshiped for the wrong reason. Worship isn't for you. It's for God.
- Rick Warren
Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God.
- David Platt
May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
- Ignatius of Loyola