Quotes about Selflessness
Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.
- AW Tozer
If you feel so lonely you could cry, take the focus off yourself. Think of how much God loves you, and find another person whom you can serve today.
- David Jeremiah
Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.
- Tullian Tchividjian
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?
- Ezra Taft Benson
I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.
- Abraham Lincoln
Pray daily to be used by God, sacrifice personal needs and so greed has to go out of the window. Because you have to believe God can take care of you so you don't have to worry about that.
- Alveda King
If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.
- Thomas Jefferson
We pray as if God's chief objective is our personal comfort. It's not. God's chief objective is His glory.
- Mark Batterson
Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help.
- Max Lucado
The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.
- Oswald Chambers
Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.
- Rick Warren