SELF-SEEKING
The widest thing in the
universe is not space; it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is
capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. And one of the world's greatest tragedies is
that we allow our hearts to shrink until there is room in them for little
besides ourselves.
The Root of the Righteous. Christianity Today, v. 34, n. 3.
Self-seeking blinds the
soul…There is not a greater hindrance to all the duties of piety than
self-seeking.
Thomas Brooks
Self-serving needs are not
meant to be satisfied; they are meant to be put to death.
Edward T. Welch
When People are Big and God is Small, P&R Publishing,
1997, p. 162. Used by Permission.
Look for yourself and you
will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin and
decay. But look for Christ and you will
find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
C.S. Lewis
Be desirous, my son, to do the will of another rather than thine
own.
Thomas a Kempis