Quotes about Altruism
There are only two ways: either we love-and love in action is service - or we put hatred into action and destroy.
- Mother Teresa
God loves the world through us.
- Mother Teresa
I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.
- Anne Lamott
People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back.
- Francis Chan
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.
- St. Augustine
Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.
- Thomas Jefferson
Love is counting someone else's needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.
- Timothy Keller
The only love language is 'die to self.'
- Christine Caine
This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts.
- Mother Teresa
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
- St. Augustine
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.
- Ben Stein
Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.
- NT Wright