Apollonia Kotero Quotes

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

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

The Savior was selfless. He viewed himself and his own needs as secondary, and he ministered to others tirelessly, lovingly, effectively.

The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

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

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

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

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

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

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

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

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

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

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

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.