: self-sacrificing
… one of the most self-giving, compassionate persons I know …—
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Belinda Luscombe, Time, 10 Nov. 2025
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Ultimately, the whole world is God's holy land, but as claimed in the name of Jesus, and by the means of Jesus, which is by the means of self-giving love, rather than the means of the bullet and the tank.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 10 Nov. 2025
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“Self-giving.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-giving. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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