Quotes about Selflessness

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.

Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.

And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross.

I have nobody else like him who will genuinely care for your needs.

because he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for your deficit of service to me.

But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

If one of you tells him, “Go in peace; stay warm and well fed,” but does not provide for his physical needs, what good is that?

By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

True biblical love is compassionately and righteously pursuing the well-being of another.

If what others said or did lined up with God's Word, then that was the first test. The second was in motives. Watching a person's actions and seeing what was most important to them and their desired end result would help her judge their motives. People who were truly determined to give of themselves and be servants of God would always do so in such a way that was never to their own glory.