self-forgetting

Example Sentences

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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

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

Let this be a day of self-forgetting ministry for Christ and others.

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

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)

She had been in Algonquin only a little over three months but already the self-forgetting tasks she had set herself, were beginning to work their cure.

From The End of the Rainbow by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller