“I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else.” IfsMenWorldBelieveHeartSelfMomentsLawSpiritI BelievePleasureRoomsPridePrayingHolyAmbitionSeekingCornersContraryGhostSelfishnessHoly SpiritConceitHoly GhostPraying To GodSpirit Of God Book:Secret Power Source: Secret Power
“Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.” MayMeanDoeSelfPleasureMoralityBenefitsHighestSelfishnessImmoral Author:Ayn Rand
“All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayHumansEndsSelfFormInterestPleasureResultsAcceptingOffersSlaveryProfitBlockIdeologySelfishnessIdolsFlashReplacedFleetingSelf InterestWay Of ThinkingIntoxicationChoose LifeRespect Life Author:Pope Francis
“Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?” PeopleMenWantPainSufferingHouseGivenPleasureSittingFellowsCharitySelfishnessWoeFellow ManCorpsesMerrySitting Up Book:Redburn.His First Voyage Source: Redburn.His First Voyage
“Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.” WantNeedsSongPleasureLustSelfishnessSelfish Interest Author:Rick Warren
“The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because the idolatry of riches prevents the majority from sharing the goods that the Creator has made for all, and in the all-possessing minority it produces an exaggerated pleasure in these goods.” ChildrenDoeMadeDesirePleasureProduceAbsolutesMajorityEnvironmentalCreatorRichesSelfishnessMinoritiesGoodsSustainabilityIdolatryChild Of GodPossessingExaggerated Author:Oscar Romero
“Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?” MenSufferingPleasureRegretVictoryConflictSakeSelfishnessRighteousnessAppetiteScorn Book:(407 p.) Source: (407 p.)