He did not cultivate self, even His divine self: He took no account of self. He was not led…into the recesses of His own soul to brood morbidly over His own needs…He was led by His love for others into the world, to forget Himself in the needs of others, to sacrifice self once for all upon the alter of sympathy. Self-sacrifice brought Christ into the world. And self-sacrifice will lead us, His followers, not way from, but into the midst of men. Wherever men suffer, there will we be to comfort. Wherever men strive, there will we be to help. Wherever men fail, there will we be to uplift. Wherever men succeed, there will we be to rejoice. Self-sacrifice means not indifference to our times and our fellows: it means absorption in them. It means forgetfulness of self in others. It means entering into every man’s hopes and fears, longings and despairs: it means manysidedness of spirit, multiform activity, multiplicity of sympathies. It means riches of development. It means not that we should live one life, but a thousand lives–binding ourselves to a thousand souls by the filaments of so loving a sympathy that their lives become ours.
-B.B. Warfield
The Weekend Design 