Selfless Desire Quotes

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.

It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory.

Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?

To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship... United with his fellow men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love.

A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.

You owe me nothing, but I want everything.

He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.

Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.

By all means ask for abundance and health for you, but also ask for it to be given to everyone.

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.