selfishness on Self-Reliance

God of our hearts, we come to You admitting that we are lost. In our lives of chaos, we have lost our peace. In our selfishness, we have lost our ability to care for others. In our self-reliance, we h...

We may find it hard to believe Jeremiah’s words that the heart is “deceitful above all things.” We would rather look outward and think, Yes, others may be quite foolish and misguided. But I have a ...

Merciful God, We come before you with thankful hearts. Thankful for the many gifts you have given us. You have clothed us and given us shelter. You have given us food to fill our stomachs, friendship...

Leader: King Jesus, you taught your disciples a great deal about your kingdom, and we confess that we have thought much more about our own kingdoms than about yours. In fact, you are the king over all...

There is not any thing, relating to men and characters, more surprising and unaccountable, than this partiality to themselves. . . . Hence it is that many men seem perfect strangers to their own chara...

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.

“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

There is nothing in this world so empty as getting what you want.

Ancient Lens What can we learn from the historical context? Small Town Boys The towns in this area were small and close together, but they were not particularly large.  As such, even a few thousa...

Ancient Lens What can we learn from the historical context? Small Town Boys The towns in this area were small and close together, but they were not particularly large.  As such, even a few thousa...

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Let this be thy whole Endeavour, this thy prayer, this thy desire, that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotio...

At this very moment you and I are either committing [selfishness], or about to commit it, or repenting it.

In 1976, Richard Dawkins claimed in his bestselling book The Selfish Gene that we can’t expect humans to be anything but selfish: “We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to prese...

All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and power, cut themselves off from that charity w...

When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they’re not it.

Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to...

In Redeeming Productivity , Reagan Rose tells his own story to illustrate the two ways in which the idea that “it’s my life” leads to two very different and disordered outlooks on productivity. When ...

Moralistic behavior change done for one's self simply manipulates and leverages radical selfishness without challenging it.

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

O God, Father of us all, we praise you for so binding humanity together that we must each lean upon the strength and labor of others. We ask your blessing on all men and women who have worked to build...