139. UNSELFISHNESS/SELFISHNESS   --page 1075--

         There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that witholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty (Pro.11:24).

         1. Fill your life with love and you'll have no room for selfishness.
         2. God goes an awful lot by your motives, whether they are selfish or unselfish!
         3. He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse (Pro.28:27).
         4. A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
         5. Too often we seek justice for just us.
         6. People who worship their minds are worshipping themselves, and if they're worshipping themselves, they're literally worshipping the god of this World.
         7. Self-preservation, they say, is the first Law of Nature. It's not the first Law of Love!
         8. Someone has said there are two types of people in the World: Those who come into the room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come and say, "Ah, there you are!"
         9. Self-pity is pride, hurt feelings are damnable stinking self!
         10. Selfish lust causes harmful hurt, but sacrificial love results in healing and happiness.
         11. Selfishness wants it all, so it gets nothing.
         12. If you are not willing to share everything and anything or anybody here in this Family, you don't belong.
         13. Why should the Lord give it to you if you don't give it out to others?
         14. The reason his heart was in the barns was because the barns were in his heart.
         15. Selfishness is the possessiveness of private property.
         16. The person who lives by himself and for himself is apt to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
         17. Selfishness is one of the primary symptoms of insanity! The insane seldom think of others, they're usually only thinking of themselves.
         18. An independent spirit is really selfishness.
         19. Can you truly love others without partiality, or do you only give selfishly to those from whom you only selfishly wish to receive?
         20. They'd rather kill it than share it!--That's the ultimate in selfishness!
         21. The proud, selfish and jealous kill rather than share.
         22. By your selfishness you could be absolutely killing the one you say you love.
         23. God is in the business of breaking up little selfish private worldly families, to make of their yielded broken pieces a larger unit--one family--His Family!
         24. There can be no superior or selfish private ties which supersede our ties to God above all!
         25. I don't like selfish independent people who are not willing to sacrifice and to share and lay down their lives for others.
         26. If you've got even one selfish reservation, that's too many!
         27. One little bit of refusing to share and refusing to give all, refusing to forsake all and sacrifice all, leads to more and greater refusals.
         28. As David Livingstone said, "I never made a sacrifice."
         29. Unselfishness is a habit that you have to cultivate.
         30. The only sane thing, as far as God's concerned, is love and unselfishness and sacrifice. People who are unloving and selfish and only concerned about themselves are insane. It's a form of insanity.

         (See also No. 123, 215, 259, 287, 290, 302C, 321, 340, 530, 575, 603, 607, 647, 648, 662, 676, 698, 721, 727, 752, 804, 811, 837, 880, 902, 918, 919, 928, 974, 1002, 1022, 1265, 1330, 1372, 1373.)

         31. 1CO.10:33 ...I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit.

         (See verses on Giving.)


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