self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

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

I want you to observe that in what I did there was simply the spontaneous wisdom of love—love, not fondness, not desire of reciprocation, but self-forgetting and reverent of its object.

From Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Peabody, Elizabeth P. (Palmer)

The intoxication of an ideal and self-forgetting trust—a merger of all else in tenderness—flooded their souls and passed back and forth between them in their mutual glances.

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele

For it is my opinion that prayer should always be for spiritual good only, in order that our religion should be pure from self-seeking, and generously self-forgetting in its aspirations for perfection.

From Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Peabody, Elizabeth P. (Palmer)