Inspirational Quotes on Selfishness

“Many people live righteously for selfish or misguided reasons. If you are striving to please God, examine your motives today.”

“Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.”

“Supreme and abiding self-love is a very dwarfish affection, but a giant evil.”

“We can build influence by self promotion, but God will only promote those who do not promote themselves. That which is built on self-promotion will have to be maintained by human striving. Those who allow God to build the house have taken a yoke that is easy and a burden that is light.”

“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 never grow beyond that kind of thinking.”

“Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.”

“To pretend to homage to God, and intend only the advantage of self, is rather to mock Him than worship Him.”

“When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should submit His own honor to our advantage; we make ourselves more glorious than God, as though we were not made for Him, but He made for us; this is to have a very low esteem of the majesty of God.”

“I see too many people who are trying to exercise in faith who do not have a relationship with God. The only time they come to God is when they are in dire need in perilous circumstances and they look to Him to get them out of the crises--but they have not built the infrastructure of relationship up under their faith--they are just using God because their in trouble.”

“Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.”

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

“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.”

“A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.”

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

“When we make self the end of prayer, it is not worship but self-seeking.”

“Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving, living for self.”

“The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices.”

“The flesh makes self the center and elevates self-will above God's will. It may serve God, but always according to its idea, not according to God's. It will do what is good in its own eyes. Self is the principle behind every action.”

“The difference between the good which proceeds from the flesh and the good which flows from the new life is that the flesh always has self at its center.”

“The fall of man was due to the love of knowledge and of wisdom. Satan is employing the same tactic today in order to retain the believer's soul as his operative center.”