"Some people think selfishness must be always aggressive. But there is a passive form of selfishness as well as an active one. Selfishness does not always covet what belongs to another. It may show itself in a lack of concern for another.Is that not the appalling truth about this world of ours?...Listen to men's conversations. They are talking about a 'good time,' by which they mean the maximum of pleasure and enjoyment and the minimum of work. How little we hear about duty and honor and responsibility. Every man is out for himself. Every man wants comfort and ease. The common phrase has been 'to settle down in life,' to enjoy ourselves in a detached sort of way from everybody else. Everyone for himself. Has there not been a tendency to contract out of life, to live our own lives in our own little circle? What is the cause of this?The cause of all this...is departure from God, for God tells us that we are to love our neighbor even as ourselves. The Bible from beginning to end in the Old Testament and in the New tells us that we are not to go out and live life in our own way...It tells us not to put a circle around ourselves but to deny ourselves and go out for Christ, bearing his reproach. That is the teaching of the Bible - the selfless life, the life lived for God and under God."Martyn Lloyd Jones