Quotes about Self-centeredness

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

You are a dog in the manger, Cathy, and desire no one to be loved but yourself!

It is so strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world!

People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.

Our lives are going to be less than God's best if we are consumed with "self." Self-centeredness keeps us from seeing the needs of others and causes us to miss the blessings that come when we serve. We don't have to totally forget about our own needs. But we can chase selfishness away by not always thinking about our needs first.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.

The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.