selfishness

To think we can simply sashay into Heaven as we are without some serious heart surgery is to have a shallow view of both God’s holiness and our sinfulness and selfishness.

As the days pass, Grace’s maternal instincts and her human selfishness war.

“I lost my way. I got lost in my journey. Lost in the drugs and the excess. My downfall was rooted in my selfishness. I have been humbled and broken to my core.”

"My downfall was rooted in my selfishness. I have been humbled and broken to my core."

Abraham Lincoln, in a reply to Sen. Stephen Douglas dated October 16, 1854, said that slavery was founded in the selfishness of man’s nature and opposition to it was founded in his love of justice.