Quotes about Selflessness
Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.
— Mary Baker Eddy
If you have ever said, "I didn't get anything out of worship today," you worshiped for the wrong reason. Worship isn't for you. It's for God.
— Rick Warren
Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God.
— David Platt
May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
— Ignatius of Loyola
Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.
— AW Tozer
If you feel so lonely you could cry, take the focus off yourself. Think of how much God loves you, and find another person whom you can serve today.
— David Jeremiah
Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?
— Ezra Taft Benson
I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.
— Abraham Lincoln
Pray daily to be used by God, sacrifice personal needs and so greed has to go out of the window. Because you have to believe God can take care of you so you don't have to worry about that.
— Alveda King
If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.
— Thomas Jefferson