Joshua Harris Quotes

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.

You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

I've always put everybody else's child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.

The true power of love is found in selfless attitudes and actions that seek the best for another person without expecting anything in return. When we act in that way, the feeling of love follows close behind.

True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.

There is no love without sacrifices.

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.