Quotes about Self-absorption

One in five American children are living in poverty, and yet, according to the Barna Research Group, 'half of all adults did nothing at all in the past year to help a poor person' and 'few churches have a serious ministry to the poor.' With such crying needs and such self-absorption among God's people, surely things have never been worse.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

The age of the Internet, it is said, is the age of the self and the selfie. The world is full of people full of themselves. In such an age, "I post, therefore I am.

This is an empire called "narcissism.

People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.

Self-absorbed people experience a lot of disappointment and anger, and they often have a hair trigger when it comes to accusing God or anyone else who doesn't meet their demands. We often hear them say, "That's not fair!

I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.

Preoccupation with self is always a major component of unhealthy guilt and recrimination.

Life can be taken out of others in rivulets and drops, in the small daily failures of inattention, that bitterest fruit of self-absorption, as surely as by terrible strokes to their hearts.

I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.