Quotes about Selflessness

They may not deserve forgiveness but I do.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Going all in and all out for the All in All is both a death sentence and a life sentence. Your sinful nature, along with its selfish desires, is nailed to the cross. Then, and only then, does your true personality, your true potential, and your true purpose come alive. After all, God cannot resurrect what has not died. And that's why so many people are half alive. They haven't died to self yet.

the true value of an offering isn't measured by how much we give. It's measured by how much we keep... By definition, a sacrifice must involve sacrifice...

Consecration is death to self. I know there is a fear that if we give more of ourselves to God, there will be less of us left, but it's the exact opposite. It's not until we die to self that we truly come alive. The more we give to God, the more we have and the more we become. It's only in losing our lives that we will really find them.

The paradigm shift happens when we come to terms with the fact that the world doesn't revolve around us.

Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

Jesus could have aborted his redemptive mission with one call for angelic backup. But Jesus wasn't trying to save himself. He was trying to save you.

From the secular to the sacred, we can focus on ourselves or others.

The goal of marriage is not happiness, it is holiness...There is no mechanism whereby God can sanctify a person more than having them live in close proximity to another imperfect person. ...Our fundamental problem is that we are selfish. Marriage is the means whereby God eradicates our selfishness because it is not about "me" anymore, i t is about "we.