66 Quotes About Ego-centric

To live ‘for’ myself is to live ‘by’ myself. And do I really want to do that ‘to’ myself?

Really it’s about God saving me from myself, for if that doesn’t happen ‘first’ then there is no ‘second’.

Ethics, morals and values keep freedom from devolving into license. For license is greed unleashed. And we would be quite wise to remember that greed unleashed is certain to turn and kill the thing that unleashed it.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.

If I see God as nothing more than a caricature of history or imagination I cannot do anything less than make myself my own ‘god’. And once I realize that in doing so my rendition of being a ‘god’ is embarrassingly inferior to the very caricature I am mimicking, I quickly come to realize that maybe the only thing that can be ‘god’ is a God. And if that is the case, I suddenly find myself hounded by the stunning reality that God is not a caricature.

It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.

How can I claim to be the center of my universe when I can’t even conceptualize that which I claim to be the center of?

It is in embracing an unwavering adherence to Biblical principles that we will find a sustainable argument for the conviction that ‘sacrifice is the only sensible vocation.’ And it is the irresistible nature of that argument that can lift us above the incessantly gnawing desire to make ourselves the only vocation.