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I think the most selfish, self-centered individual in this world is not an unsaved person. It's a Christian who accepts the salvation God offers freely and goes out and lives for himself. -
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Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. -
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I believe in God and the whole business, but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellowman hardly at all.” -
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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams observes that the biblical ideal is not so much that we need to deny the self as to decenter the self: To see the self in truth, as an integral member of a comm... -
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. -
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No matter how low down you are; no matter what your disposition has been; you may be low in your thoughts, words, and actions; you may be selfish; your heart may be overflowing with corruption and wic... -
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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... -
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Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself. -
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All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self. -
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That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality. -
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At this very moment you and I are either committing [selfishness], or about to commit it, or repenting it. -
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One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness. -
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Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants. -
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. -
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There is nothing in this world so empty as getting what you want. -
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“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” -
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“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.” -
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Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth. -
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If our goods are not available to the community, they are stolen goods. -
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One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. -
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The DNA of sin is selfishness. Sin inserts me into the middle of my universe; the one place reserved for God and God alone. Sin reduces my field of concern down to my wants, my needs, and my feelings.... -
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Babies by nature are completely selfish. They think only of themselves and their own needs. They are incapable of giving; they can only receive. That is immature thinking. Unfortunately, many people n... -
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A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself. -
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Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more. -
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What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self? -
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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... -
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Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles. -
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How could we enjoy heaven…if during our lifetime we had used most of our time, treasure, and talents for ourselves and our select group? -
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Selfish people pursue gain at others’ expense. But God’s riches are infinite. When you serve Him and others, you store up treasures in Heaven. This doesn’t reduce the treasures available to others. Ev... -
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The secret of every discord in Christian homes and communities and churches is that we seek our own way and our own glory.
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