Quotes about Selfishness

We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become men without growing up. They stay in boyhood through their 20s and 30s, sometimes their whole lives. They think of themselves first, indulge in pornography, do what they feel like, leave their wives, and culture, and churches to raise their children.

Nothing is more poisonous than the spirit of entitlement that permeates our culture and sometimes, sadly, our churches.

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

If you can't be corrected, you have a problem with pride. If you rebel against authority, if you want to take all the credit and glory to yourself, if you say "I" too often, then you have a problem with pride. It

An immature Christian is selfish, self-centered, and finds it difficult to be happy unless he is getting what he wants in life.

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.

Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.

That is why one of Rich's most powerful songs, and one he enjoyed singing in concert more than any other, is "Greed.

If you want it your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of your own way forever.

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?