“Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.” (Philippians 2:1-4 NIV)
We are prevented from making an Eden out of earth only because we love ourselves more than we love our neighbors. What is in our hearts is reflected in our behavior. Thus we try to accumulate more things than others while they accumulate more things than we; each becomes envious of the other. Greed and resentment develop, cause the petty village quarrels and the devastating world wars. Our own selfishness is “enemy number one.”
-- Frank Laubach
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