Quotes about Selflessness

This stunning act of humble love resulted not from Jesus's forgetting who he was but from remembering who he was. This was the holy mission of the Son Savior. He had to be willing to enter the lowest human condition, to do the most debased thing, and to let go of his rights of position in order that we might be redeemed. It was a high and holy calling, and it was the only way.

Humility is the soil in which mercy for others grows.

There is no investment as poor as investment in the kingdom of self!

It takes grace for me to acknowledge that there is a King and that he is not me.

If you find more joy in serving God than yourself, you know that grace has entered your door, because only grace has the power to rescue you from you.

If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it." — LUKE 9:23-24

A selfish person will never learn the joy of giving and being a blessing to others.

She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.

Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”

Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.

And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”

Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you desire, I will do for you.”