self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

We can repay our debt to our noble forefathers only by a like magnanimity, by a like self-forgetting care for the moral and material interests of our own posterity.

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.

To see my work successful, to see Bride and Bridegroom at length resting in one another with undisturbed, self-forgetting confidence, this is my joy.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Dods, Marcus

A long, patient, laborious, self-forgetting life hers has been—has it not?

From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

The holiest will be the humblest and most self-forgetting, the gentlest and most self-denying, the kindest and most thoughtful of others for Jesus’ sake.

From Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy by Murray, Andrew