Quotes about Selflessness

It's a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.

Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.

Love gives up the right to get even.

The gospel frees us from demanding our own way, because nothing we desire to obtain is worth sinning against such love and kindness.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Take 2 heaping cups of Patience 1 heart full of Love 2 handfuls of Generosity Sprinkle with Kindness Add plenty of Faith Mix well and spread over a period of a lifetime and serve everybody you meet.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. We must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the person we love. This is the ground of real love. You cannot resist loving another person when you really understand him or her.

In sanctification, there is never, under any circumstances, any room for self-pride or self-praise.