“Self-pity is Satanic.” — Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Self-interest is not merely thinking highly of oneself as much as it is thinking too often of oneself. You may think of you are a loser, but if you think about that loser all the time, it is apparently a very important loser.
“A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.” — Carlo Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
Self-pity is stupid. It is the desire to rule over ruins rather than serve under someone else's sovereignty. It is impetuous and ignorant. It does not merely hurt others to gain for itself, it hurts others without getting anything back. It sends itself to its room without any supper in order to punish its parents. It starves itself in order to send a message, but ends up cutting off its lines of communication.
“No sin is worse than the sin of self-pity, because it obliterates God and puts self-interest upon the throne. It opens our mouths to spit out murmurings and our lives become craving spiritual sponges, there is nothing lovely or generous about them.” — Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Self-pity is satanic. It is consumed with petty desires and even pettier vengeances.
“Discouragement is disenchanted self-love.” — Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
We often lose heart when the world does not clap along with our self-congratulation. We love ourselves to the moon and back and find out that the power of self-love cannot get us anywhere we want to go. Love is not love as it turns out. Especially when it is self-love.
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