Bible Encyclopedia: Selfishness: Inconsistent With Christian Love

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Love in the Blessed Ones.
... Of course, selfishness is utterly inconsistent with Love; but Love is not the mere
absence of selfishness, as in Adam; nor its rebuke and blood-bought victory ...
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Seeketh not Her Own. 1 Corinthians 13:5.
... That is, Charity, or Christian love, seeketh not her own ... regard to our own happiness
is inconsistent with true ... great measure for granted, that selfishness is not ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/seeketh not her own 1.htm

Attributes of Love.
... end that are seen to be inconsistent with it ... administration"and in the manifestation
of Christian character, both ... this state of will is selfishness under one ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xiv attributes of love.htm

For they Loved the Praise of Men More than the Praise of God. John ...
... love principles that are constitutional in them or from selfishness. ... them see that
their course is palpably inconsistent with Christian perfection, and ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/for they loved the praise.htm

Attributes of Love.
... represent what are called the Christian graces or ... enjoys everybody's good things,
while selfishness is too ... of others is by no means inconsistent with happiness ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xii attributes of love.htm

Forgiveness and Love.
... the ideas they had of Him were inconsistent with each ... deeper he is sunk in lovelessness
and selfishness"is he ... what is meant by being a Christian, comes to ...
/.../schleiermacher/selected sermons of schleiermacher/vi forgiveness and love.htm

Attributes of Selfishness.
... lounging and idleness.' others are gossippers; others love exercise, and ... so called,
is equally an instance of selfishness and wholly inconsistent with any ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xviii attributes of selfishness.htm

Be not Conformed to this World. Romans 12:2.
... business men, and the habits and usages of business men, are all based upon supreme
selfishness. ... Is not this inconsistent with Christian principle, to go ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/be not conformed to this.htm

Love Worketh no Ill to his Neighbor; Therefore Love is the ...
... 2. That there is nothing in the life inconsistent with love. ... Perfect love will so
annihilate selfishness, that he will have no will but the will of God, and ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/love worketh no ill to.htm

God's Love for a Sinning World
... He may do nothing inconsistent with its spirit ... Our subject strikingly illustrates
the nature of sin as mere selfishness. ... And what do you think of it, Christian? ...
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