Inspirational Quotes on Selfishness

“Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.”

“Abide in Jesus, the sinless One - which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God's will and rest in His strength. This is what brings the power that does not commit sin.”

“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”

“Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.”

“Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.”

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

“Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God in anger proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity.”

“No man is more cheated than the selfish man.”

“The heart of man is a short word, a small substance, scarce enough to give a kite a meal, yet great in capacity; yea, so indefinite in desire that the round globe of the world cannot fill the three corners of it. When it desires more and cries, "Give, give," I will set it over to the infinite good, where the more it hath, it may desire more, and see more to be desired.”

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

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

“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.”

“Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.”

“He accumulates wealth in solitude, thinking: how strong, how secure I am now; and does not see, madman as he is, that the more he accumulates, the more he sinks into suicidal impotence. For he is accustomed to relying only on himself, he has separated his unit from the whole, he has accustomed his soul to not believing in people's help, in people or in mankind, and now only trembles lest his money and his acquired privileges perish. Everywhere now the human mind has begun laughably not to understand that a man's true security lies not in his own solitary effort, but in the general wholeness of humanity. But there must needs come a term to this horrible isolation, and everyone will all at once realize how unnaturally they have separated themselves from one another.”