Inspirational Quotes on Selfishness

“In so obeying Christ as to disregard his natural affection, a believer's natural love suffers intensely. Such sorrow and pain becomes a practical cross to him. Deep are the heart wounds and many are the tears when one has to forfeit the one he loves.”

“God wills for us to be attached to nothing aside from Him, whether it be man or a thing or even something conferred on us by Himself.”

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

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

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

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

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

“If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.”

“To choose a career on selfish grounds is probably the greatest single sin that any young person can commit, for it is the deliberate withdrawal from allegiance to God of the greatest part of time and strength.”

“Nothing cures ingratitude as quickly as a good memory.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The demon has a name that is known among men, though it frightens few and draws many, alas! His name is Self, and he is the shadow of your own self. First he made you love him, which was evil, and now he has made you hate him, which is evil also. But if he be cast out and never more enter into your heart, but remain as a servant in your hall, then you will recover from this sickness, and be whole and sound, and will find the varlet serviceable.”

“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.”

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

“He repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. ”

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