Selfishness

22.10 Mary says:

«The first charity towards our neighbours is to be exerted towards our neighbours. This must not seem a pun to you. There is charity towards God and charity towards our neighbours. Charity towards our neighbours comprises also charity towards ourselves. But if we love ourselves more than our neighbours, we are no longer charitable, we are selfish. Also in lawful matters, we must be so holy as to always give priority to the needs of our neighbour. Be sure, My children, that God provides for the generous by means of His power and His bounty.»

• Charity
• Generosity
• Love of neighbor
• Loving God
• Selfishness
• Service

God is the master of time. He provides for those who hope in Him, also in normal things. Selfishness does not speed matters up, it delays them. Charity does not delay, it speeds up. Always bear that in mind.

• Charity
• God's generosity
• Selfishness
• Words of wisdom
• haste - haste

(...) I wish to draw the attention of wives to one point. Too many marriages break up through the fault of women, who do not possess that love, which is everything: kindness, pity and solace to their husbands. The physical suffering that lies heavy on women does not lie heavily on men. But all the moral worries do: necessities of work, decisions to be taken, responsibilities before the established authorities and one’s own family… oh! how many things weigh on man! And how much comfort he also needs! And yet, a woman’s selfishness is such that she adds the weight of useless and sometimes unfair complaints to the burden of her tired, disheartened, worried husband. And all this because she is selfish. She does not love.

Love is not the satisfaction of one’s senses and utility. To love is to satisfy him whom we love, beyond senses and utility, giving him the help he needs so that he may always be able to keep his wings open in the skies of hope and peace.

• Comfort - Relief
• Couple
• Family
• Husband and wife - Husband and wife
• Selfishness

Many people, only because they are fairly good Catholics who pray and receive Me in the Holy Eucharist, and they pray and receive Me for ‘their’ needs, not for the needs of their souls and for the Glory of God — because only seldom those who pray are not selfish — many people would expect to have a prosperous, happy, easy material life, well-protected even from the least pain.

• Eucharist
• Prayer
• Selfishness

We must reject a thing when it is harmful to everybody. If a person says: “I do not want that because I would lose”, that person is selfish. Instead, the good child of God says: “Brothers, I know I would win, but I say to you: don’t let us do that because you would suffer a loss”. Oh! That fellow has understood the main precept!

• Children of God - Sons of God
• Delicacy
• Love of neighbor
• Selfishness

• Selfishness
• Words of wisdom

• Hate
• Selfishness
• Words of wisdom

• Adultery
• Commandments
• Concupiscence
• Debauchery
• Decalogue
• Disobedience
• Envie
• Flight
• Greed
• How to perfect and sanctify yourself
• Impurity
• Lie
• Parents and children
• Presumption
• Revolt - Rebellion
• Selfishness
• Triple concupiscence
• Words of wisdom

• Anxiety - Fear - Fearfulness
• Domination
• Enemies of Jesus Christ
• Greed
• Grudge - Rancor
• Hate
• Hypocrisy - Duplicity
• Idolatry
• Lie
• Lucifer - Satan
• Modern self-righteousness (quibbling and bickering)
• Passions
• Phariseeism
• Pride
• Selfishness

• Disgust
• Selfishness
• Who is Jesus? How Christ defines himself