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self-seeking example sentences
self-seeking
1. self-seeking; to joy and laughter without the aid of alcohol; to the true
2. ness and self-seeking that real suffering appears in the
3. The difference between prayer and worship is that prayer is largely self-seeking while worship is selfess
4. Isn’t it, however, all doomed to fail due to its self-seeking nature?
5. Prejudice can be eliminated only by the abandonment of self-seeking and by substituting therefor the quest of the satisfaction of the service of a cause that is not only greater than self, but one that is even greater than all humanity -- the search for God, the attainment of divinity
6. And how dangerous ambition can become when it is once wholly wedded to self-seeking and supremely motivated by sullen and long-suppressed vengeance! What a crushing thing is disappointment in the lives of those foolish persons who, in fastening their gaze on the shadowy and evanescent allurements of time, become blinded to the higher and more real achievements of the everlasting attainments of the eternal worlds of divine values and true spiritual realities
7. “Friends, we have certainly stirred up a nest of hornets, as we all know there are as many gods as trees in the forests and all these gods are served by as many priests as there are stars, fortunately the majority are god fearing men, the self-seeking and greedy priests are what concerns us, although they are in a minority they are a powerful minority, our victory does not seem to have diminished the stranglehold they have on the people of Teotihuacan, the fear I have witnessed at the mere mention of their names, is a sad reflection on my beloved profession, I would wholeheartedly be behind any action you take to curtail their power, I do not think we should allow this state of affairs to continue in Teotihuacan
8. If Wisdom ascends in meekness, the bitterness and self-seeking will not boast, nor lie against Me, the Truth
9. Now you notice here it is - but if you have bitter envy and self-seeking, self-centredness, selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast, don't lie against the truth
10. When you go down that route, no matter how nice it looks, it opens the door for demons - for where envy and self-seeking exists
11. The human proclivity toward self-seeking,
12. Matthew’s gospel is the tremendous death warrant of all self-seeking religious impostors to the end of time
13. In humoring my mistake, Miss Havisham, you punished—practised on—perhaps you will supply whatever term expresses your intention, without offence—your self-seeking relations?"
14. In Russia and Turkey as in America and France, however often the government change its officials, the majority of them are self-seeking and corrupt, of so low a moral standard that they do not even come up the elementary requirements of common honesty expected by the government
