Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.

It's better to give ideas away and contribute to another person's success than to have them lying dormant.

Contending with fanaticism does not mean destroying all fanatics, but rather cautiously handling the little fanatic who hides, more or less, inside each of our souls. It also means ridiculing, just a little, our own convictions; being curious; and trying to take a peek, from time to time, not only through our neighbor's window but, more important, at the reality viewed from that window, which will necessarily be different from the one seen through our own.

There is no choice for us; we must either deny self or deny Christ. Deliverance from self-life means to be a vessel overflowing with love to everybody all day.

If I bear the name of another, I have given up my own name and my own independent life.

And the Christian life has suffered loss, where believers have not been distinctly guided to see that, even in our relation as creatures, nothing is more natural and beautiful and blessed than to be nothing, that God may be all;

The humble man feels no jealousy or envy. He can praise God when others are preferred and blessed before him. He can bear to hear others praised and himself forgotten, because in God's presence he has learnt to say with Paul, 'I am nothing.' He has received the spirit of Jesus, who pleased not Himself, and sought not His own honour, as the spirit of his life.

To live the life of Christ means to him to be delivered from the life of self; the will of Christ is to him the only path of liberty from the slavery of his own evil self-will.

A vessel must be empty if it is to be filled, and if we are to be filled with the life of God we must be utterly empty of self.

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life in love to others.

We ought not to please ourselves. For even Christ pleased not Himself. Self-denial is the law of his life.