self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

He did not get it fully learned until after Jesus had risen again, and the Holy Spirit had come,—that the measure of rank in spiritual life is the measure of self-forgetting service.

From Personal Friendships of Jesus by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)

No, the sum of his wide and hard experience of life, of his sorrows, joys, and disappointments was expressed in that beautiful, anxious, self-forgetting dream of the coming happiness of others.

From Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by Bunin, I. A.

These States have had a force of excellent speakers in the field, who, with rare self-forgetting, have worked as only those can who work with whole-hearted faith for immortal principles.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

The Divine life is a self-forgetting life, a life that has nothing to do but love and bless.

From Days of Heaven Upon Earth by Simpson, A. B. (Albert B.)