Quotes about Selflessness

Love is not a feeling; it's giving someone what he or she needs most when it is least deserved. That's how God loved me, and I choose to stick with the program.

I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father's love that He had no ambition of His own. He was not looking to build an empire, He did not want praise or adulation or to impress people with who or how many followed Him. He stopped over and over again for just one person, for just one life.

This bride will give up the selfish riches of this world to inherit the earth. She will be so ruined and wrecked by love that she will run full force into the darkness. This will cause His light through her to explode into the world—all for love's sake.

When I held Beatrice, I caught scabies and lice. But it didn't matter. My only goal is to love more.

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

The charitable system that does not aim to make itself unnecessary is not performing service.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.