self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

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)

His whole-hearted, absolutely self-forgetting labor, and his reach after the highest standards in his art, from 1902 to 1919, made Mr. Hallam dear not only to his choir, but to all Chautauquans.

From The Story of Chautauqua by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman

We need to learn of Him, and to be filled with His Spirit of self-forgetting, self-denying, self-sacrificing love.

From Evangelists of Art Picture-Sermons for Children by Patrick, James

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

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