Spiritual Selfishness Quotes

#1. One's Use of Life', if turns into worldly selfishness is called adharma (irreligion), and if it turns into spiritual selfishness (towards true self) is called dharma (religion).

Dada Bhagwan

#2. We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer.

Paul E. Miller

#3. Before the art of medicine comes the art of belief.

Deepak Chopra

#4. Prayer or worship does not therefore grant a free pass to selfishness ...

Ian-Anthony Finnimore

#5. No matter how fierce the enemy seems
when fear cripples us, anger enrages us, or selfishness possesses us; when adversity crushes us, opposition hounds us, or temptation plagues us
God is greater.

Katy Kauffman

#6. What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.

Gary Hamel

#7. Oh, I don't mean you're handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they're beautiful. They're wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.

Charles Bukowski

#8. The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.

Ellen G. White

#9. Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18)

Prem Prakash

#10. Men have committed murder for jealousy's sake, and anger's sake, and hatred's sake, and selfishness' sake, and spiritual pride's sake; but no man that ever I heard of, ever committed a diabolical murder for sweet charity's sake.

Herman Melville

#11. Chastity by no means signifies rejection of human sexuality or lack of esteem for it: rather it signifies spiritual energy capable of defending love from the perils of selfishness and aggressiveness, and able to advance it towards its full realization.

Pope John Paul II

#12. We can actually live out the trials and temptations of the day before they come. We can in prayer deal with all our unrighteous aspirations, selfishness, perverse inclinations, impatience, anger, procrastination. This is a form of spiritual creation.

Stephen Covey

#13. Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.

Napoleon Hill

#14. One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

George MacDonald

#15. Behind sunglasses we linger over espresso, talking about pizza as an art form, the geekiness of people's travel clothes ...

Frances Mayes

#16. If we confuse material illusions with spiritual purpose, then we'll be lost in the fire of desire, which increases through the emotions of greed and selfishness.

Daniel Marques

#17. As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

Richard Whately

#18. I don't think we'll shoot 76 percent in a half ever again. That's crazy.

Gregg Popovich

#19. The greater your character the greater your destiny.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Nora Ephron

#21. When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. Go pick bananas, we'll run the canal.

Meldrim Thomson Jr.

#23. If you are single and don't want to be. The only regret is staying that way.

Suzette R. Hinton

#24. If there is true 'Selfishness,' then there is 'liberation of the Self', and that indeed is one's own form (the Self).

Dada Bhagwan

#25. Some business bets in which one wins big but infrequently, yet loses small but frequently, are worth making if others are suckers for them and if you have the personal and intellectual stamina.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#26. Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others.

William R. Bradford

#27. Like most children, I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

Maya Angelou

#28. By the time we were knit in our mothers' wombs, our lives were like open books before Him
every sentence read, every paragraph indented, every chapter titled, every page numbered. He knew it all in advance
all the sin, all the selfishness, every weakness. Yet He chose to love us
lavishly.

Beth Moore