B.B. Warfield, On Unselfish Living

“A life of self-sacrificing unselfishness is the most divinely beautiful life that man an lead. He whom is our Master we have engaged to obey, whom as our Example we are pledged to imitate, is presented to us here as the great model of self-sacrificing unselfishness. “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,” is the apostle’s teaching. We need to note carefully, however, that it is not self-depreciation, but self-abnegation, that is thus commend to us. If we would follow Christ, we must, every one of us, not in pride but in humility, yet not in lowness but in lowliness not degrade ourselves but forget ourselves, and seek every man not his own things but those of others.” (The Person and Work of Christ, pg. 571)