Quotes about Selflessness

God determines greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

Paul said, "You may brag about yourself, but the only approval that counts is the Lord's approval.

C. S. Lewis observed, "The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become — because he made us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be…. It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

George Bernard Shaw wrote, "This is the true joy of life: the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

Love means giving up - yielding my preferences, comfort, goals, security, money, energy, or time for the benefit of someone else.

Agape doesn't need a reason.

Give the gift, and surrender the rest.

When you truly love someone, you will be there every second they need you to! no matter what they are doing or what they want to be doing

Everyone wants to be worth a little sacrifice.

If we are focusing on our needs, the relationship is in trouble.

It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.