Quotes about Selflessness
Every day you have less reason Not to give yourself away.
— Wendell Berry
Agape, the Christian word, means unconquerable benevolence. It means that, no matter what people may do to us by way of insult or injury or humiliation, we will never seek anything else but their highest good. It
— William Barclay
Walking in love means giving the other person what he or she needs the most when it is least deserved, because that's exactly how God has treated you.
— Chip Ingram
Love is not a feeling; it's giving someone what he or she needs most when it is least deserved. That's how God loved me, and I choose to stick with the program.
— Chip Ingram
I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father's love that He had no ambition of His own. He was not looking to build an empire, He did not want praise or adulation or to impress people with who or how many followed Him. He stopped over and over again for just one person, for just one life.
— Heidi Baker
This bride will give up the selfish riches of this world to inherit the earth. She will be so ruined and wrecked by love that she will run full force into the darkness. This will cause His light through her to explode into the world—all for love's sake.
— Heidi Baker
When I held Beatrice, I caught scabies and lice. But it didn't matter. My only goal is to love more.
— Heidi Baker
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
— Henry David Thoreau
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.
— Henry David Thoreau
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.
— Henry Ford
The charitable system that does not aim to make itself unnecessary is not performing service.
— Henry Ford
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher