Quotes about Selflessness

Those who seek their own honor are no longer seeking God and their neighbor.

Self-centered love loves the other for the sake of itself; spiritual love loves the other for the sake of Christ.

Work is only an instrument in the hand of God for the purification of Christians from all self-centeredness and self-seeking. The work of the world can be done only where a person forgets himself, where he loses himself in a cause...

What does it mean to love God? Loving God means giving him everything that belongs to me; it means wishing nothing for myself; it means asking his will before everything you do; it means gladly thinking about him, praying to him, gladly hearing and reading his word.

The wish to be independent in everything is false pride. Even what we owe to others belongs to ourselves and is a part of our own lives, and any attempt to calculate what we have 'earned' for ourselves and what we owe to other people is certainly not Christian, and is, moreover, a futile undertaking.

The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.

Get down off 'at cross; Somebody needs the wood!

Truly spiritual people live not unto themselves, not for their own glory and happiness, but for the glory of God alone (soli Deogloria).

The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.

When you serve others, when you make somebody else's life better, when you lift up people, when you help heal those that are hurting, not only are they being blessed, but you're being blessed.

We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.

Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.