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“Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.”

Different Soul Together Heaven Natural Elements Selfishness Enjoyment Purity Different Things Yearning Natural Elements

Book:Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...

Source: Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...

“It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.”

Ifs Men Self Dream Heaven Hell Self Love Deception Selfishness Gates Delicious Self Deception Offspring Gates Of Heaven

Book:Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies

Source: Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies

“Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.”

Heaven Hell Alcohol Intense Selfishness Satan Reign Egotism Milton

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.”

“It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.”

Way Desire Heaven Selfishness Doubted

Author:Owen Feltham