Quotes about Altruism
Genuine love is the glad effort to make others glad in God forever. Genuine love is being willing to suffer and die to draw as many people as we can into the pursuit and enjoyment of God.
- John Piper
Therefore, one of God's purposes in the coronavirus is that his people put to death self-pity and fear, and give themselves to good deeds in the presence of danger. Christians lean toward need, not comfort. Toward love, not safety. That's what our Savior is like. That is what he died for.
- John Piper
Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.
- John Piper
self-interest is not the same as selfishness.
- John Piper
Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?
- John Wesley
Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can.
- John Wesley
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Happiness begins where selfishness ends.
- John Wooden
We are all woven together in the great web of humanity, and whatever we can do to benefit and uplift others will reflect in blessing upon ourselves.
- Ellen White
Christians must look upon themselves only as channels through which mercies and blessings are to flow from the Fountain of all goodness to their fellow men,
- Ellen White