Quotes about Selflessness
When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.
— Mahatma Gandhi
God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
If we don't think about God, everything ends up being about 'me' and my own comfort.
— Pope Francis
You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
— Catherine of Siena
God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.
— Henri Nouwen
CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.
— John Piper
Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom.
— Francis de Sales
It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
— Henry David Thoreau
A "godly" person is one who ceases to be self-centered in order to become God-centered.
— Charles Swindoll