Quotes about Selflessness
If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
- Amy Carmichael
Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.
- Tullian Tchividjian
Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.
- Mother Teresa
Extravagant love is never wasted.
- Bob Goff
Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
- Henri Nouwen
Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
- John Keats
What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.
- St. Basil
Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
True love is an act of total surrender.
- Paulo Coelho
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
- Mother Teresa