“The Lord trieth the just and the wicked, but he that loveth iniquity hateth his own soul” (Psalm 10:6). “Iniquity” is inequality, injustice, which seeks more for myself than my rights allow and which gives others less than they should receive. To love myself more than others is to be untrue to myself as well as to them. The more I seek to take advantage of others the less of a person will I myself be, for the anxiety to possess what I should not have narrows and diminishes my own soul. Therefore the man who loves himself too much is incapable of loving anyone effectively, including himself.
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