Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

I have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

You give before you get.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn’t care much for themselves, God doesn’t bless them. I didn’t want to be pope.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

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.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.