Inspirational Quotes on Selfishness

“God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.”

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

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

“Unless self love is abandoned the believer shall forever shrink back when called actually to take up the cross for Christ.”

“When we receive from God and hold on to what we have received selfishly, we die spiritually.”

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

“The average person who claims to believe in God (as does the vast majority in America) is too preoccupied with himself to give God much time or serious thought.”

“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

“Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.”

“We do not fool Him by saying we want something for His glory when secretly our motivations are selfish. We do not fool Him by saying we believe He can work miracles when inwardly we doubt He will follow through.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Despite the fact our desires occasionally agree with His will, God is not delighted with them because they are nonetheless of ourselves.”

“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 woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.”

“The man who is out to possess his possessions will soon discover that there is no easy way to victory. The highest values in life must be fought for and won.”

“Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.”

“There are many seasons in a man's life - and the more exalted and responsible his position, the more frequently do these season's recur - when the voice of duty and the dictates of feeling are opposed to each other; and it is only the weak and the wicked who yield that obedience to the selfish impulses of the heart which is due to reason and honor.”

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

“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.”