Quotes about Selflessness
The real spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.
- J. Oswald Sanders
Neither strident nor flamboyant, God's servant conducts a ministry that appears almost self-defacing. What a contrast to the arrogant self-advertising of so many hypesters today, both in and out of the church.
- J. Oswald Sanders
I have one passion: it is He, He alone." Zinzendorf turned from self-seeking to become the founder and leader of the Moravian Church.
- J. Oswald Sanders
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
- JRR Tolkien
But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.
- JRR Tolkien
Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.
- Dale Carnegie
The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.
- John Ortberg
But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.
- Louie Giglio
Jesus must increase and I must decrease.
- Louie Giglio
What a way to walk through life: entering every environment with every intention to shine as little light as possible on me and as much light as possible on the Son of God.
- Louie Giglio
When we suffer, it's always for somebody's saving—that issue is always hanging in the balance. It's not all about me; it's all about Jesus becoming known in this broken world.
- Louie Giglio
Whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. (Matthew 16:25)
- Louie Giglio