Quotes about Egotism

Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

The Bible is very clear that in the last days men will be "lovers of themselves" (2 Tim. 3:2).

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

When we measure ourselves by the life of Jesus, who humbled Himself on the cross, we are overwhelmed with the shabbiness, even the vileness, of our hearts, and we cry: Boasting excluded, pride I abase; I'm only a sinner, saved by grace. James M. Gray Egotism

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

Egotism is pathological self-obsession, a reaction to anxiety about whether one really does count. It is a form of acute selfconsciousness and can be prevented and healed only by the experience of being adequately loved. It is, indeed, a desperate response to frustration of the need we all have to count for something and be held to be irreplaceable, without price.

There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

Unlike egotism, the drive to significance is a simple extension of the creative impulse of God that gave us being. It is not filtered through self-consciousness any more than is our lunge to catch a package falling from someone's hand. It is outwardly directed to the good to be done. We were built to count, as water is made to run downhill. We are placed in a specific context to count in ways no one else does. That is our destiny.

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.