All his faith and selflessness were nerving the big man.

Look at all that valiance, that beauty of life gone out to perish for a cause it knows to be right; think of the generosity of that giving by the young men; think of the faithful courage of the women who steel themselves to let them go; think of the increase of spirit and selflessness which everywhere rises to meet the claim.

The original unity of the three forms is dissolved, as the first raises itself out of the condition of a mere potency and withdraws itself from pure being in order to exist for itself; the tension extends itself to the two othersthe second now comes out from its selflessness, subdues the first, and so leads the third back to unity.

Whenever temptation to play the cynic or think meanly of my fellow-man shall come, my mind will hark back to those two unpretending fellows and bow in reverence before the selflessness and immensity of the human soul.

SELFLESSNESS Higher-space speculation is an education in selflessness, for it demands the elimination of what Hinton calls self-elements of observation.

SELFLESSNESS Higher-space speculation is an education in selflessness, for it demands the elimination of what Hinton calls self-elements of observation.

A self-centered man cannot do full justice to this theory: it requires of the mind a certain detachment, and the idea becomes clear in proportion as this detachment, this selflessness, is attained.

But the proof of the reality of her mission from those whom she spoke of as Masters lay not in these comparatively trivial physical and mental phenomena, but in the splendour of her heroic endurance, the depth of her knowledge, the selflessness of her character, the lofty spirituality of her teaching, the untiring passion of her devotion, the incessant ardour of her work for the enlightening of men.

He had gradually mastered his emotion, his sense of wrong, and with that exquisite selflessness which real love alone can kindle in a human heart, he had succeeded in putting aside all thought of his own great misery, his helplessness and the hopelessness of his position, and remembered only that she looked fragile, a little older, sadder, and had need of his help.

Meekness, selflessness, and love are the paths of His testimony and the footsteps of His

One need not say that selflessness is the very essence of goodness, and the central moral doctrine of Christianity.

Too eager 'to be all things to all men,' the august and beneficent Mother of Christendom readmitted the earlier Animism in new forms of saint-worship, pilgrimage, and popular ceremonialthings apart from, but commonly supposed to be substitutes for, righteousness of life and the selflessness enjoined in savage mysteries.

But with sublime sacrifice I accepted these risks, and you will presently see, Sir, how I was repaid for my selflessness.

Its very selflessness made it stronger than his love for her.