James McAvoy Quotes

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

What is a hero without love for mankind.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.

I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.

There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.

My beautiful, selfless sister Manuela Testolini-Benet continues to inspire me to be a better woman. Always thinking of others, always doing God's work.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.