Quotes on Self Giving

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Sanctity is intimacy with God; it is the imitation of Christ, poor, chaste and humble; it is unreserved love for souls and self-giving to their true good; it is love for the church which is holy and wants us to be holy, because such is the mission that Christ has entrusted to it. Each one of you must be holy also in order to help your brothers pursue their vocation to sanctity.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

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

For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.