Quotes about Self-centeredness

I still lack humility. I still tend to make life about my plan, my feelings, my desires, and my expectations. I am still tempted to assess the "good" of a day by whether it pleased me versus whether I pleased God and was loving toward others. I still am tempted to live as if I own my life and still fail to remember that I was bought with a price.

Yet the message of the garden of Eden is that sin makes us quest for God's position. We want life to work according to our will and conform to our plan. This desire to be at the center never goes anywhere good, personally or relationally. Self-centeredness is at the core of sin's dysfunction, another powerful evidence of our need for rescuing grace.

in the heart of a sinner, awe of God is very quickly replaced by awe of self.

He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.

So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’

But the Bible teaches us that our heart deceives us and is desperately wicked. At its core, our heart is all about self—not Christ. It's about what's temporary—not eternal. It's about what's easy—not what's right. It's obsessed with what we want—not what God wants.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

If you want to be your own god, you have to settle for living in a tiny universe where there is room for only one person.

Pride moves us to bow down before a mirror rather than before God.

The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

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