The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self,… — Henry Blackaby Copy Share Image
“Conversely, every act done without thought for myself diminishes my self-centeredness until finally no barrier remains to separate me from the Divine.” — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Decrease the complaining. Decrease the self-centeredness around it. Everybody has pain. ” — Tai Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The most self-absorbed people display an ironic pension for the smallest minds and the largest mouths.” — Aaron W. Matthews Copy Share Image
“We must acquire honesty, humility, appreciation, and kill self-centeredness to keep sober.” — Ed Webster Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness. — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Living God's way means putting away your self-centeredness and committing yourself to follow God's Word in spite of any feelings to the… — John C. Broger Copy Share Image
“As we observe the way our minds and bodies react to pleasure and pain, we begin to clearly understand how ultimately impersonal… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“All we need to release our inner God is a pulpit and an audience, both of which the Internet supplies in great… — Elias Aboujaoude Md Copy Share Image
“Everything I do for my private wellbeing adds another layer to my ego, and in thickening it insulates me more from God.… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Was there any more repellent sight, Harriet wondered, than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so… — Olivia Manning Copy Share Image
Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
“Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I think that may be the biggest difference between Americans and people elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians know that there are places just… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“By the time our conversation ended last night, Hannah had taken a huge turn. She learned that the doubts, fears, and self-centeredness… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“The pain of the narcissist is that, to him, everything is really a threat. What doesn't surrender in reverence is blasphemous to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The whole story of the Father's Christ-exalting plan of redeeming love, from eternity to eternity, must be told, or the radical reorientation… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“Unlike the rest of you, I cheerfully admit to my own utter selfishness. I am self-made, self-absorbed, self-serving, self-referential, even self-deprecating, in… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“You might have Bible verses on the wall in every room of the house and yet the unspoken rituals reinforce self-centeredness rather… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.” — Abbe Smith Copy Share Image
“When a self-evident truth is presented, don't surprised when self-centeredness fights back...” — Joe Matlock Copy Share Image
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“All conflicts in the world are the product of humanity's innate self-centered activity.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Self-centeredness brings misery,A proud heart bring much pain; But those with true humility Have lasting peace to gain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness. — Bernice King Copy Share Image
“If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Self-centeredness is the basis for all sorts of immoral behavior as well as all the sorrows of humanity.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Don't wait for some miracle to be performed on you from without, lifting you above your fears and doubts and self-centeredness. You… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
“The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Why do some people feel the need to throw a person's errors or weaknesses in their face or criticize their shortcomings? What… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
