SELF-PITY

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Millicent Fenwick

Self pity comes when you lose the intimacy with Jesus.

Stefan Salmonsson

Self-Pleasing

1.      God’s glory must be the ultimate end.

2.      The matter must be lawful and not forbidden.

3.      Therefore it must not be to the hindrance of duty.

4.      Nor to the drawing of us to sin.

5.      Nor to the hurt of our health.

6.      Nor too highly valued, nor too dearly bought.

7.      The measure must be moderate rate. Where any of these are wanting, it is sin: and where flesh-pleasing is habitually in the bent of heart and life preferred before the pleasing of God, it proves the soul in captivity to the flesh, and in a damnable condition.

Richard Baxter